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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. InfinityDB vs. Splunk vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

boilerbay.com

www.splunk.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Boiler Bay Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2002

2003

1987

Current release

4.0

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Source-replica 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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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