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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. MonetDB vs. mSQL vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.monetdb.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

MonetDB BV

Hughes Technologies

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2009

2004

1994

2003

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

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

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL 2003 with some extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JCache

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding via remote tables

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

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

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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