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System Properties Comparison Splunk vs. XTDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.splunk.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.xtdb.com/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Splunk Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2003

2019

2001

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP REST
JDBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, each node contains all data

yes

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

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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