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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. Riak TS vs. RisingWave vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. Riak TS vs. RisingWave vs. Splunk

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cnwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.splunk.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesRisingWave LabsSplunk Inc.
Initial release20132004201520222003
Current release6.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.0.0, September 20221.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonErlangRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesnoStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsyes, limitedyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsErlangUDFs in Python or Javayes
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesno infolinks between datasets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnoUsers and RolesAccess rights for users and roles

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