DBMS > BoltDB vs. H2 vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. H2 vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

An 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.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	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

www.h2database.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.splunk.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

help.sap.com/hana

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Thomas Mueller

SAP

Splunk Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

2005

2010

2003

2012

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

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

also available as a cloud based service

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

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

yes

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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