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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Bangdb vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

bangdb.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.bangdb.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

2012

2003

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL like support with command line tool

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

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

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users and roles

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