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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NCache vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.55
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

2012

2005

2003

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

optimistic locking

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

yes

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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