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DBMS > Firebolt vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Splunk

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
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Score1.49
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score93.02
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.firebolt.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Splunk Inc.
Initial release202020102003
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesno
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Implementation languageErlang
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles

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