DBMS > Lovefield vs. Rockset vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Rockset vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

rockset.com

www.splunk.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.rockset.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Google

Rockset

Splunk Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2019

2003

2012

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

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++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

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

ACID

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

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