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

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.splunk.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Embarcadero

Splunk Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

1984

2003

2012

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

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

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

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

Interbase Change Views

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

ACID

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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