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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

bigobject.io

google.github.io/lovefield

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Google

Hughes Technologies

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2015

2014

1994

2003

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

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

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Access rights for users and roles

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