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DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml vs. Splunk

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NameGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRDF storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitecloud.google.com/­datastorewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rdf4j.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.splunk.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperGoogleCirconus LLC.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.informationpartners gmbhSplunk Inc.
Initial release20082017200420152003
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20181.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, details hereyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresusing Google App Engineyes, in Luayesyes infoon the application serveryes
TriggersCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using Paxosconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedmultiple readers, single writerno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesAccess rights for users and roles

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