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System Properties Comparison MongoDB vs. Splunk vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Analytics Platform for Big Data

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0

Document store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	436.61
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	86.64
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.97
Rank	#157	Overall
	#27	Key-value stores

Website

www.mongodb.com

www.splunk.com

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

docs.mongodb.com/manual

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

MongoDB, Inc

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2009

2003

2008

Current release

6.0.5, March 2023

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean

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

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Connector for BI

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding

Hash sharding based on virtual buckets

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes, with SQL

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

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

ACID, read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

yes, regular snapshots on disk, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

MongoDB provides an integrated suite of cloud database and data services to accelerate...
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Competitive advantages

Built around the flexible document data model and unified API, MongoDB is a developer...
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Typical application scenarios

Internet of Things and Time Series (Bosch, GE Healthcare, Jaguar Land Rover) Mobile...
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Key customers

ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

365+ million downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month handling...
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Licensing and pricing models

MongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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