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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Riak TS vs. RRDtool vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Riak TS vs. RRDtool vs. Splunk

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesTobias OetikerSplunk Inc.
Initial release2013201519992003
Current release3.0.0, September 20221.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoErlangC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleyes
Secondary indexesnorestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, limitednono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
in-process shared library
Pipes
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGoC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangnoyes
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between datasets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonono 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 infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users and roles

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