DBMS > BoltDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
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Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
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Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

rocksdb.org

spark.apache.org/sql

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Kyligence, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2016

2013

2014

2003

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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++

Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

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

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 rights for users and roles

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