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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiteWhere vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

SAP

formerly Sybase

SiteWhere

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

1992

2010

2003

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and roles

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