DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Widely used open source RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.esgyn.cn

galaxybase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mysql.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Esgyn

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2015

2017

2014

1995

2003

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

with proprietary extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Go
Java
Python

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

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