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System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. STSdb vs. Titan vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

STS Soft SC

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Rocket Software

Initial release

2013

2003

2011

2012

1985

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

optional

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

Access rights for users and roles

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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