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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Hazelcast vs. NSDb vs. Splunk vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Hazelcast

Splunk Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2014

2008

2017

2003

2012

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP REST

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Java
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Replicated Map

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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

simple authentication-based access control

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