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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Lovefield vs. Rockset vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Lovefield vs. Rockset vs. Splunk

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldrockset.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.rockset.comdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperElasticGoogleRocksetSplunk Inc.
Initial release2010201420192003
Current release8.6, January 20232.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafarihostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTHTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureUsing read-only observersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAccess rights for users and roles

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