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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Realm vs. Rockset vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

realm.io

rockset.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

realm.io/docs

docs.rockset.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Rockset

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

2019

2003

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

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

yes

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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

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Access rights for users and roles

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