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DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hive vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hive vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

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NameGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platformdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAnalytics Platform for Big DataPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­datastorehive.apache.orgwww.splunk.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunksql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperGoogleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSplunk Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2008201220032012
Current release3.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, details hereyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP RESTJavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresusing Google App Engineyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesno
TriggersCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using Paxosselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesno

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