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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. jBASE vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. jBASE vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareAnalytics Platform for Big DataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score1.43
Rank#160  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score88.71
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.exasol.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.splunk.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffExasolRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Splunk Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release20142000199120032018
Current release5.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalyesno
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesyesno
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and rolesno

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