DBMS > Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.datomic.com

www.exasol.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.exasol.com/resources

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Cognitect

Exasol

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2000

2015

2014

2003

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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