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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Splunk vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Analytics Platform for Big Data

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.splunk.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

docs.datastax.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

DataStax

Oracle

Splunk Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2023

2011

2003

1998

Current release

6.8, April 2020

23.3, December 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenarios

Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customers

Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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