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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NCache vs. NuoDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

doc.nuodb.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

2005

2013

2003

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

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

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
PHP

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

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

tunable commit protocol

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

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

yes

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

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

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