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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OceanBase vs. Splunk vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

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

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.gbase.cn

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

en.oceanbase.com

www.splunk.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Microsoft

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Splunk Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2004

2016

2010

2003

2012

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

4.3.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

HTTP REST

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

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

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles

simple authentication-based access control

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Licensing and pricing models

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