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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Hypertable vs. RDFox vs. Riak KV vs. Splunk

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSplunk Inc.
Initial release20132009201720092003
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20166.0, Septermber 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++Erlang
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangyes
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelreplication via a shared file systemselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRoles, resources, and access typesyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and roles

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