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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. LMDB vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbquestdb.iorocksdb.orgwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docquestdb.io/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperSymasQuestDB Technology IncFacebook, Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20132011201420132003
Current release0.9.32, January 20249.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoCJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnonononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL with time-series extensionsnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
C++ API
Java API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID for single-table writesyesno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users and roles
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BoltDBLMDBQuestDBRocksDBSplunk
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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