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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. jBASE vs. Splunk vs. SurrealDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareAnalytics Platform for Big DataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineMultivalue DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.splunk.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunksurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperElasticRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Splunk Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2010199120032022
Current release8.6, January 20235.7v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaRust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP RESTGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.Memcached and Redis integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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