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DBMS > Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB

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NameRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Analytics Platform for Big DataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value storeSearch engineKey-value store
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Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score4.00
Rank#84  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score88.71
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websiterocksdb.orgwww.splunk.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesFacebook, Inc.Splunk Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release2009201320032018
Current release3.2.0, December 20228.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesrestrictednoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
C++ API
Java API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangnoyesno
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storednonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak SecuritynoAccess rights for users and rolesno

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