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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Riak KV vs. Splunk vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Search engine

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.splunk.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Splunk Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

2008

2009

2003

2016

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

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

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users and roles

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