DBMS > BoltDB vs. H2 vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. H2 vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
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Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2005

2013

2001

2003

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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