DBMS > BoltDB vs. gStore vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. gStore vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

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

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2013

2016

2013

2003

2014

Current release

1.2, November 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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