DBMS > BoltDB vs. GridGain vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GridGain vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.gridgain.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2007

2013

2010

2003

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

8.11.4, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

yes

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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