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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. Solr vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Analytics Platform for Big Data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	44.28
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

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

solr.apache.org

www.splunk.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Apache Software Foundation

Splunk Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

1991

2006

2003

2018

Current release

5.7

9.5.0, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

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

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java plugins

yes

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

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

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

optimistic locking

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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