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DBMS > BigObject vs. BoltDB vs. KeyDB vs. Lovefield vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. BoltDB vs. KeyDB vs. Lovefield vs. Splunk

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAn embedded key-value store for Go.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
google.github.io/­lovefieldwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.keydb.devgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.GoogleSplunk Inc.
Initial release20152013201920142003
Current release2.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnopartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoLuanoyes
TriggersnononoUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple password-based access control and ACLnoAccess rights for users and roles

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