DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

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

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

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

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

www.splunk.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2016

2013

2001

2003

2012

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

Access rights for users and roles

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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