DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2016

2014

2003

2014

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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