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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Sequoiadb vs. SiriDB vs. Solr vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

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

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.siridb.com

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Cesbit

Apache Software Foundation

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

2013

2017

2006

2003

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

Numeric data

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Java plugins

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

optimistic locking

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

simple password-based access control

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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