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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. mSQL vs. OpenEdge vs. RDF4J vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.exasol.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.progress.com/openedge

rdf4j.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Exasol

Hughes Technologies

Progress Software Corporation

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2000

1994

1984

2004

2003

Current release

4.4, October 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

close to SQL 92

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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 storage is supported as well

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 and groups

Access rights for users and roles

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