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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Riak TS vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Riak TS vs. Splunk

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
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Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.gbase.cnazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.MicrosoftOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSplunk Inc.
Initial release20152004201620152003
Current release1.0.0, September 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonC++Erlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsyesyes, limitedno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#C#
Java
PHP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsTransact SQLErlangyes
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesnoAccess rights for users and roles

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