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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Cubrid vs. Lovefield vs. Splunk vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

altibase.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

google.github.io/lovefield

www.splunk.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

cubrid.org/manuals

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Altibase

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Splunk Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1999

2008

2014

2003

2020

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

11.0, January 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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