DBMS > Dgraph vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Percona

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2015

2013

2003

2018

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Access rights for users and roles

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