DBMS > Derby vs. EventStoreDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. EventStoreDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.eventstore.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

developers.eventstore.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Event Store Limited

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1997

2012

2014

2003

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

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

time, int, uint, float, string

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

SQL-like query language

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC (https)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

token access

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

Access rights for users and roles

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