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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. SiteWhere vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

google.github.io/lovefield

machbase.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

machbase.com/dbms

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

Machbase

SiteWhere

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

2013

2010

2003

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and roles

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