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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Splunk vs. Trino

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Name

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	2.13
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

www.splunk.com

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

Splunk Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2010

2003

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

8.1, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

SQL standard access control

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News

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22 August 2024

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1 August 2024

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11 July 2024

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