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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. SingleStore vs. Splunk vs. Transbase vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.singlestore.com

www.splunk.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.singlestore.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Exasol

SingleStore Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Transwarp

Initial release

2000

2013

2003

1987

Current release

8.5, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Go

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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