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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset vs. Spark SQL vs. Splunk

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.kinetica.compouchdb.comrockset.comspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.compouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.rockset.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperKineticaApache Software FoundationRocksetApache Software FoundationSplunk Inc.
Initial release20122012201920142003
Current release7.1, August 20217.1.1, June 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaScriptC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnodynamic typingyesyes
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportednoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnonoyes
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeAutomatic shardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yesnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono 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 persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenoAccess rights for users and roles

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