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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Splunk vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	57.96
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	78.87
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.05
Rank	#362	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.splunk.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Google

Splunk Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2010

2003

1987

Current release

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica 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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

yes

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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