DBMS > BoltDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Pinecone vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Pinecone vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A managed, cloud-native vector database

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

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

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.pinecone.io

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Oracle

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2007

2019

2013

2003

Current release

14.1, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java

Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

configurable

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

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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