DBMS > BoltDB vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Rank	#114	Overall
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Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
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Score	89.10
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	#2	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
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Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

maxdb.sap.com

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

1984

2013

2003

2011

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

none

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

yes

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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