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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. RDF4J vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

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Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Splunk Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2008

2004

2003

2012

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Access rights for users and roles

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