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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Lovefield vs. Splunk vs. Tkrzw vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	43.19
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#283	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	96.35
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#354	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#354	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.splunk.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org

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

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Google

Splunk Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2008

2014

2003

2020

2009

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

No single point of failure ensures very high availability with multiple customers...
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Typical application scenarios

Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customers

Apple, Salesforce, Cerner, Allegis Group, Bloomberg, Airtel, Thomson Reuters, Dish,...
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Market metrics

#1 largest NoSQL database by revenue
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