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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GreptimeDB vs. Splunk vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Analytics Platform for Big Data

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.greptime.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Greptime Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2022

2003

2012

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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