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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	47.84
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

www.splunk.com

www.teradata.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.teradata.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Splunk Inc.

Teradata

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2003

1984

2019

Current release

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

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, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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