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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splunk

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Name	BigObject  Xexclude from comparison	Infobright  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	Splunk  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries	High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database model	Relational DBMS a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.19 Rank #329   Overall #146   Relational DBMS	Score 1.02 Rank #192   Overall #90   Relational DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 89.10 Rank #14   Overall #2   Search engines
Website	bigobject.io	ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.splunk.com
Technical documentation	docs.bigobject.io		docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	docs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
Developer	BigObject, Inc.	Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.	Microsoft	Splunk Inc.
Initial release	2015	2005	2016	2003
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free community edition available	commercial The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016	commercial	commercial Limited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language		C	C++
Server operating systems	Linux distributed as a docker-image OS X distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker) Windows distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)	Linux Windows	hosted	Linux OS X Solaris Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no	yes
Secondary indexes	yes	no Knowledge Grid Technology used instead	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like DML and DDL statements	yes	yes	no Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methods	fluentd ODBC RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	HTTP REST
Supported programming languages		.Net C C# C++ D Eiffel Erlang Haskell Java Objective-C OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby Scheme Tcl	C# Java PHP	C# Java JavaScript PHP Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Lua	no	Transact SQL	yes
Triggers	no	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	none	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	Source-replica replication	yes	Multi-source replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	yes
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes automatically between fact table and dimension tables	no	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID	no A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	yes		no
User concepts Access control	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities	yes	Access rights for users and roles
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