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

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Symas

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2013

2011

2013

2003

2022

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.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
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

ACID

yes

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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