DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. jBASE vs. Postgres-XL vs. Splunk vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. jBASE vs. Postgres-XL vs. Splunk vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.postgres-xl.org

www.splunk.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Alibaba

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Splunk Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

1991

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2003

2011

Current release

5.7

10 R1, October 2018

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

MVCC

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Based on Windows Authentication

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