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System Properties Comparison RavenDB vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Analytics Platform for Big Data

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.01
Rank	#101	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

ravendb.net

www.splunk.com

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

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

Technical documentation

ravendb.net/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

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

Developer

Hibernating Rhinos

Splunk Inc.

Simer Plaha

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2010

2003

2018

2020

1987

Current release

5.4, July 2022

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C++

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

Atomic execution of operations

yes

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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