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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  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 HadoopDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperHypertable Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesRisingWave LabsSplunk Inc.
Initial release20132009200920222003
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20163.2.0, December 20221.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++ErlangRust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangUDFs in Python or Javayes
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
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 levelselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononono 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 controlnonoyes, using Riak SecurityUsers and RolesAccess rights for users and roles

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