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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Riak KV vs. Splunk vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

www.splunk.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

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

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

MonetDB BV

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Splunk Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2004

2009

2003

1999

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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