DBMS > FeatureBase vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

realm.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.siridb.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Facebook, Inc.

Cesbit

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2017

2014

2013

2017

2003

Current release

2022, May 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL queries

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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, using Linux fsync

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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