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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Citus vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Access vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Citus vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Access vs. Splunk

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLCloud-based data warehousing serviceMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteblueflood.iowww.citusdata.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.splunk.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.citusdata.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperRackspaceIBMMicrosoftSplunk Inc.
Initial release20132010201419922003
Current release8.1, December 20181902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxhostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno infoImport/export of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.PL/SQL, SQL PLyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users and roles

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