DBMS > Firebolt vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.49
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.firebolt.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

help.sap.com/hana

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

SAP

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2020

2010

2003

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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