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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptWidely used in-process key-value storeEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Key-value storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score2.80
Rank#112  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score4.52
Rank#80  Overall
#10  Key-value stores
Score89.68
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlrocksdb.orgwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperGoogleOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleFacebook, Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release2014199420132003
Current release2.1.12, February 201718.1.40, May 20208.10.0, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
TriggersUsing read-only observersyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDByesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users and roles

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