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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Splunk

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Fully managed big data interactive analytics platformRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#121  Relational DBMS
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.exasol.commanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerraima.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerdocs.raima.comdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperExasolManticore SoftwareMicrosoftRaima Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20002017201919842003
Current release6.0, February 2023cloud service with continuous releases15, June 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedAndroid
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesFixed schemaFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyesyes
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.noCan index from XMLyesno infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Ryes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationyes
Triggersyesnoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoAzure Active Directory AuthenticationnoAccess rights for users and roles
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Competitive advantagesDecreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Typical application scenariosTypical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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Key customersInfor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Market metricsOver 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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Licensing and pricing modelsJust as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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