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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. OushuDB vs. Splunk

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#363  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.oushu.com/­documentationdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisOushuSplunk Inc.
Initial release2013201520062003
Current release4.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoPython
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoHadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noKerberos, SSL and role based accessAccess rights for users and roles

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