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DBMS > RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. SurrealDB

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NameRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Analytics Platform for Big DataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score3.21
Rank#83  Overall
#12  Key-value stores
Score71.39
Rank#18  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.08
Rank#176  Overall
#30  Document stores
#16  Graph DBMS
Websiterocksdb.orgwww.splunk.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunksurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFacebook, Inc.Splunk Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release201320032022
Current release9.4.0, June 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
HTTP RESTGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes
Triggersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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