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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. SiteWhere vs. Splunk vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.splunk.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

SiteWhere

Splunk Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2010

2003

2011

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud 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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and roles

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