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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. H2 vs. KeyDB vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsAnalytics Platform for Big DataPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.splunk.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.keydb.devdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunksql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperThomas MuellerEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Splunk Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20132005201920032012
Current release2.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoBSD-3commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyespartial 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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoHTTP RESTJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoJavaC
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
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsLuayesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control and ACLAccess rights for users and rolesno

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