DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. MySQL vs. OpenMLDB vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. MySQL vs. OpenMLDB vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Widely used open source RDBMS

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

dev.mysql.com/doc

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Alibaba

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

4 Paradigm Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2016

1995

2020

2003

2014

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

2024-2 February 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java, Scala

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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