DBMS > BoltDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. H2 vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. H2 vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.h2database.com

www.splunk.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Google

Thomas Mueller

Splunk Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

2010

2005

2003

2012

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

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

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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