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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Memcached vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.69
Rank#237  Overall
#34  Key-value stores
Score20.81
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.70
Rank#114  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score4.52
Rank#80  Overall
#10  Key-value stores
Score89.68
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.memcached.orgpouchdb.comrocksdb.orgwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikipouchdb.com/­guidesgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalApache Software FoundationFacebook, Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20132003201220132003
Current release1.6.25, March 20247.1.1, June 20198.10.0, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonononoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
C++ API
Java API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoyesno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnonoAccess rights for users and roles

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