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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. Splunk

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopCloud-based data warehousing serviceEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBMGoogleSplunk Inc.
Initial release20132012201420142003
Current release3.1.3, April 20222.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducePL/SQL, SQL PLnoyes
TriggersnonoyesUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryesnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, 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.noyesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles

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