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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. PlanetScale vs. PouchDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. PlanetScale vs. PouchDB vs. Splunk

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldplanetscale.compouchdb.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdplanetscale.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperIBMGooglePlanetScaleApache Software FoundationSplunk Inc.
Initial release20142014202020122003
Current release2.1.12, February 20177.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariDocker
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.no infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyes infoproprietary syntaxView functions in JavaScriptyes
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID at shard levelnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnoAccess rights for users and roles

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