DBMS > DataFS vs. Hypertable vs. Memgraph vs. MySQL vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Hypertable vs. Memgraph vs. MySQL vs. Splunk

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Widely used open source RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

memgraph.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Social network pages

Developer

Mobiland AG

Hypertable Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2018

2009

2017

1995

2003

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

C++ API
Thrift

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source 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

relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing models

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