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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Splunk vs. Stardog vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.splunk.com

www.stardog.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

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

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Google

Splunk Inc.

Stardog-Union

Transwarp

Initial release

2014

2003

2010

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

commercial

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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

via event handlers

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

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

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 in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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