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System Properties Comparison OceanBase vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

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

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

realm.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2014

2013

2003

2018

Current release

4.3.0, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

yes

Multi-source replication

Journaling Streams

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

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

OceanBase Database is the world’s only native distributed database that has set new...
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Competitive advantages

High Availability : The five IDCs across three sites disaster recovery solution sets...
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Key customers

OceanBase Database has helped over 400 customers across industries upgrade their...
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Market metrics

TPC-C No.1 Performance , achieved a result of 707.35 million tpmC in the TPC-C benchmark...
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Licensing and pricing models

Mulan PubL v2 license for open source community edition. Commercial license for enterprise...
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