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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Hypertable vs. Riak KV vs. Splunk

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Wide column storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperFoundationDBHypertable Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSplunk Inc.
Initial release20132013200920092003
Current release6.2.28, November 20200.9.8.11, March 20163.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++Erlang
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infosome layers support typingnonoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnonorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlynoErlangyes
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and roles

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