DBMS > EXASOL vs. MySQL vs. Splunk vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. MySQL vs. Splunk vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Exasol

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2000

1995

2003

2017

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

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

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

with proprietary extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

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