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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. PouchDB vs. Splunk vs. STSdb vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

pouchdb.com

www.splunk.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Softmotions

Apache Software Foundation

Splunk Inc.

STS Soft SC

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2003

2011

1987

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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