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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. FeatureBase vs. GBase vs. Ignite vs. Splunk

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

FatCloud

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

2004

2015

2003

Current release

2022, May 2022

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

C, Java, Python

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL queries

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

yes, using Linux fsync

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users and roles

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