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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. YDB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.34
Rank	#285	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2008

2014

2003

2019

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

Active-passive shard 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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

ACID

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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