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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OrientDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Splunk

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely 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 ServerMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infocolumn-orientedSearch engine
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Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.gbase.cnazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsorientdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.MicrosoftOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSAP, formerly SybaseSplunk Inc.
Initial release20042016201019942003
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.2.29, March 202416.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query language, no joinsyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsTransact SQLJava, Javascriptyesyes
TriggersyesnoHooksyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replicationSAP/Sybase Replication ServerMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesHadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes inforelationship in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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