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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Newts vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Splunk vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.splunk.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

OpenNMS Group

Percona

Splunk Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2014

2015

2003

1999

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

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

HTTP REST
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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