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DBMS > BoltDB vs. IRONdb vs. Lovefield vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. IRONdb vs. Lovefield vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splunk

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/google.github.io/­lovefieldwww.sequoiadb.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperCirconus LLC.GoogleSequoiadb Ltd.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20132017201420132003
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20182.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC and C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in LuanoJavaScriptyes
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDDocument is locked during a transactionno 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 persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing MemoryDBnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnononosimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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