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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splunk vs. TigerGraph vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splunk vs. TigerGraph vs. Transbase

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerAnalytics Platform for Big DataA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.splunk.comwww.tigergraph.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.tigergraph.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMicrosoftSplunk Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122016200320171987
Current release1.20.3, January 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++C#
Java
PHP
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsTransact SQLyesyesyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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