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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Splunk vs. TerminusDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

objectbox.io

www.splunk.com

terminusdb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Splunk Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2003

2018

2019

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Clojure

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication

Journaling Streams

yes, each node contains all data

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

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