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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Splunk vs. STSdb vs. Tkrzw vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Rank	#354	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.splunk.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

dbmx.net/tkrzw

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

Splunk Inc.

STS Soft SC

Mikio Hirabayashi

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2014

2003

2011

2020

2009

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

4.0.8, September 2015

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud 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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
macOS

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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