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DBMS > Databricks vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splice Machine vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splice Machine vs. Splunk

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score84.24
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#244  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score93.02
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.databricks.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticssplicemachine.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticssplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperDatabricksMicrosoftSplice MachineSplunk Inc.
Initial release2013201620142003
Current release3.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyesyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesTransact SQLyes infoJavayes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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