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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. Lovefield vs. ScyllaDB vs. Splunk vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

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

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	0.24
Rank	#311	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	5.27
Rank	#67	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.09
Rank	#354	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

google.github.io/lovefield

www.scylladb.com

www.splunk.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

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

docs.scylladb.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Google

ScyllaDB

Splunk Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

1979

2014

2015

2003

2020

Current release

V12, November 2020

2.1.12, February 2017

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

JavaScript

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes, Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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

in-memory tables

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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