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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. PouchDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

altibase.com

pouchdb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

Mireo

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1999

2012

2020

2003

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

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

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

JavaScript

C#
C++
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Eventual 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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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