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

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Name	GBase  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	Splunk  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.12 Rank #165   Overall #78   Relational DBMS	Score 21.33 Rank #36   Overall #22   Relational DBMS	Score 95.56 Rank #14   Overall #2   Search engines
Website	www.gbase8a.com	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.splunk.com
Technical documentation		docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	docs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
Developer		Microsoft	Splunk Inc.
Initial release		2016	2003
Current release	GBase 8a
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial Limited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no
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Implementation language		C++
Server operating systems		hosted	Linux OS X Solaris Windows
Data scheme		yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date		yes	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.		no	yes
Secondary indexes		yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL		yes	no Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methods		ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	HTTP REST
Supported programming languages		C# Java PHP	C# Java JavaScript PHP Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		Transact SQL	yes
Triggers		no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding, horizontal partitioning	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes	Multi-source replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods		no	yes
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity		no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data		ACID	no 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	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent		yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.			no
User concepts Access control		yes	Access rights for users and roles
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	GBase	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	Splunk
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