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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. OpenTenBase vs. Riak TS vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

2015

2003

Current release

2.5, January 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition 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

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

yes, limited

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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 for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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