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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Memcached vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Memcached vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Splunk

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingWidely used in-process key-value storeAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.memcached.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSplunk Inc.
Initial release2013200319942003
Current release1.6.25, March 202418.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoCC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnonoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoAccess rights for users and roles

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