DBMS > Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Tencent

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2013

2003

2013

2016

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

yes

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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