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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Lovefield vs. Rockset vs. Splunk vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

google.github.io/lovefield

rockset.com

www.splunk.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

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

docs.rockset.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Google

Rockset

Splunk Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2018

2014

2019

2003

2020

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Access rights for users and roles

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