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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Splice Machine vs. Splunk vs. TinkerGraph

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkAnalytics Platform for Big DataA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#244  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score93.02
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#345  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgsplicemachine.comwww.splunk.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSplice MachineSplunk Inc.
Initial release2013201420032009
Current release4.1.0, June 20223.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
HTTP RESTTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infoJavayesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceYes, via Full Spark Integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
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 searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesno

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