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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenTSDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

duckdb.org

google.github.io/lovefield

opentsdb.net

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

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

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2018

2014

2011

2003

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

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

C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

JavaScript

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users and roles

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Recent citations in the news

LLM-Assisted Translation From Postgres to SQLite and DuckDB
16 September 2024, The New Stack

My First Billion (of Rows) in DuckDB
1 May 2024, Towards Data Science

TigerEye Open Sources DuckDB.dart
15 August 2024, Datanami

DuckDB: The tiny but powerful analytics database
15 May 2024, InfoWorld

PostgreSQL in line for DuckDB-shaped boost in analytics arena
20 August 2024, The Register

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Comparing Different Time-Series Databases
10 February 2022, hackernoon.com

LogicMonitor Rolls a Time Series Database for Finer-Grain Reporting
1 June 2016, The New Stack

A real-time processing revival
1 April 2015, O'Reilly Media

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