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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. OpenQM vs. PouchDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

pouchdb.com

www.sadasengine.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Apache Software Foundation

SADAS s.r.l.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

1993

2012

2006

2003

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.4-12

7.1.1, June 2019

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

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)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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 or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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