DBMS > GBase vs. Graphite vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Graphite vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#75	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.gbase.cn

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Chris Davis

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2006

1991

2016

2003

Current release

GBase 8a

5.7

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

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

locking

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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