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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Splunk vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.postgres-xl.org

www.splunk.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Esgyn

Splunk Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2003

2020

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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