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DBMS > RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerarkDB

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NameRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Analytics Platform for Big DataPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA 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 modelKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score4.52
Rank#80  Overall
#10  Key-value stores
Score89.68
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#377  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websiterocksdb.orgwww.splunk.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperFacebook, Inc.Splunk Inc.TeradataByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2013200320052016
Current release8.10.0, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.noyesyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyesno
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesR packagesno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
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 searchingACIDno
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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