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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. HyperSQL vs. SpatiaLite vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Spatial extension of SQLite

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.bigchaindb.com

hsqldb.org

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

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

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

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Alessandro Furieri

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2001

2008

2003

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

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

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

server-less

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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