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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

2013

2003

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

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

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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