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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Esgyn

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Oracle

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2015

1984

1989

2011

2003

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Interbase Change Views

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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