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System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. SiriDB vs. Splunk vs. Tkrzw vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

siridb.com

www.splunk.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

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

Technical documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.siridb.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

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

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Cesbit

Splunk Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2009

2017

2003

2020

1987

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

0.9.3, August 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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