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DBMS > BoltDB vs. HyperSQL vs. RethinkDB vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HyperSQL vs. RethinkDB vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Analytics Platform for Big DataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthsqldb.orgrethinkdb.comwww.splunk.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Splunk Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release20132001200920032018
Current release2.7.2, June 20232.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGoAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLyesno
TriggersnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding inforange basedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDAtomic single-document operationsno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users and rolesno

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