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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Search engine

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#19	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

origodb.com

pouchdb.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

Robert Friberg et al

Apache Software Foundation

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

2012

2003

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

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

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

User concepts

Access control

Role based authorization

Access rights for users and roles

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