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System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase vs. Virtuoso

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Name

Description

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Analytics Platform for Big Data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Virtuoso is a multi-model hybrid-RDBMS that supports management of data represented as relational tables and/or property graphs

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Relational DBMS
RDF store
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	3.99
Rank	#75	Overall
	#13	Document stores
	#4	Graph DBMS
	#2	Native XML DBMS
	#40	Relational DBMS
	#2	RDF stores
	#9	Search engines

Website

nsdb.io

www.splunk.com

swaydb.simer.au

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

virtuoso.openlinksw.com

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso

Developer

Splunk Inc.

Simer Plaha

Transaction Software GmbH

OpenLink Software

Initial release

2017

2003

2018

1987

1998

Current release

Transbase 8.3, 2022

7.2.11, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

SQL - Standard relational schema
RDF - Quad (S, P, O, G) or Triple (S, P, O)
XML - DTD, XML Schema
DAV - freeform filesystem objects, plus User Defined Types a/k/a Dynamic Extension Type

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL-92, SQL-200x, SQL-3, SQLX

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
GeoSPARQL
HTTP API
JDBC
Jena RDF API
ODBC
OLE DB
RDF4J API
RESTful HTTP API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SOAP webservices
SPARQL 1.1
WebDAV
XPath
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Virtuoso PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

Chain, star, and bi-directional 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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Atomic execution of operations

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Using Apache Lucene

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 for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine-grained Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in addition to typical coarse-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) according to SQL-standard. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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