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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Splunk

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Name	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	Oracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Splunk  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	Oracles in-memory data grid solution	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Key-value store	Relational DBMS	Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS	Score 1.97 Rank #129   Overall #22   Key-value stores		Score 89.10 Rank #14   Overall #2   Search engines
Website	google.github.io/­lovefield	www.oracle.com/­java/­coherence	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.splunk.com
Technical documentation	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md	docs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence		docs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
Developer	Google	Oracle	Sybase, SAP	Splunk Inc.
Initial release	2014	2007	1993	2003
Current release	2.1.12, February 2017	14.1, August 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial	commercial Limited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	JavaScript	Java
Server operating systems	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	All OS with a Java VM	Linux Windows	Linux OS X Solaris Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no	yes
Secondary indexes	yes	no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	no	yes	no Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methods		JCache JPA RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	HTTP REST
Supported programming languages	JavaScript	.Net C++ Java	Delphi Perl PHP	C# Java JavaScript PHP Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	yes	yes
Triggers	Using read-only observers	yes Live Events	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes, with selectable consistency level	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	yes
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	configurable	ACID	no 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	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes optionally	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes using MemoryDB	yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	no	authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Access rights for users and roles
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	Lovefield	Oracle Coherence	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Splunk
DB-Engines blog posts				Enterprise Search Engines almost double their popularity in the last 12 months 2 July 2014, Paul Andlinger show all
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