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System Properties Comparison SpatiaLite vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of SQLite

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.splunk.com

sql.js.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alessandro Furieri

Splunk Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2008

2003

2012

2000

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Eventual Consistency

none

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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