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System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

rethinkdb.com

spark.apache.org/sql

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Apache Software Foundation

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2009

2014

2003

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

Java
Python
R
Scala

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

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access rights for users and roles

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