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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HBase vs. ITTIA vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

ITTIA L.L.C.

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2008

2007

2013

2003

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

8.7

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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 or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Database file passwords

Access rights for users and roles

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