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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.openpie.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

OpenPie

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2008

2003

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

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

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

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