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System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. PouchDB vs. Riak TS vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	1.94
Rank	#120	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

pouchdb.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

pouchdb.com/guides

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Symas

Apache Software Foundation

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2011

2012

2015

2003

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

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

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

via views

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

selectable replication factor

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

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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