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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

4D, Inc

Splunk Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Yandex

Initial release

1984

2003

2014

2023

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, via HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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