DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.gridgain.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2007

2015

2013

2003

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

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

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

yes

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

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

using Azure authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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