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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. TDengine vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.exasol.com

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.tdengine.com

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Exasol

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2000

2014

2003

2019

2016

Current release

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

schema-free

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

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

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

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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