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System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. RocksDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

rethinkdb.com

rocksdb.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Facebook, Inc.

Mireo

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2009

2013

2020

2003

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

9.4.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication

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

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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An introduction to building realtime apps with RethinkDB
9 July 2022, devm.io

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How to Use RethinkDB with Node.js Applications
16 December 2015, SitePoint

How to deploy RethinkDB using Docker
14 February 2018, Packt Hub

Installing and Using RethinkDB on Ubuntu
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