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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Netezza vs. Spark SQL vs. Splunk vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Netezza vs. Spark SQL vs. Splunk vs. STSdb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingAnalytics Platform for Big DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
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Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.splunk.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffIBMApache Software FoundationSplunk Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20142000201420032011
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infoincluded in applianceLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAccess rights for users and rolesno

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