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System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. Splunk vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

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

Search engine

Key-value store

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Rank	#14	Overall
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Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

www.splunk.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Splunk Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2009

2003

2016

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

C++ API
Java 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#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

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

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

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

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users and roles

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