DBMS > BoltDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch 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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

google.github.io/lovefield

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

Progress Software Corporation

Amazon Web Services

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

1984

2021

2003

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud 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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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