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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Infobright vs. Realm vs. Splunk

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbrealm.iowww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewrealm.io/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAlibabaIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Splunk Inc.
Initial release200520142003
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes
Triggersyesnoyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesyesyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesyesAccess rights for users and roles
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