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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EventStoreDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Riak KV vs. Splunk

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent StoreDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engine
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.eventstore.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdevelopers.eventstore.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupEvent Store LimitedGigaspaces TechnologiesOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSplunk Inc.
Initial release20162012200020092003
Current release21.2, February 202115.5, September 20203.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.yesno infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesErlangyes
Triggersyesyes, event driven architectureyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and roles

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