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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2007

2014

2003

2010

Current release

10.7, August 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

via events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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