DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

manticoresearch.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

manual.manticoresearch.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

2017

1989

2014

2003

Current release

6.0, February 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

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, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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