DBMS > EsgynDB vs. mSQL vs. MySQL vs. Splice Machine vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. mSQL vs. MySQL vs. Splice Machine vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.esgyn.cn

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.mysql.com

splicemachine.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Esgyn

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Splice Machine

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2015

1994

1995

2014

2003

Current release

4.4, October 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

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 and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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

Access rights for users and roles

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