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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. MonetDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.monetdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

MonetDB BV

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

1991

2004

2003

Current release

5.7

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition 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

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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.

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

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

ACID

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

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 can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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