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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Well established RDBMS

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

hsqldb.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2001

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2016

2003

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

12.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

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

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
Java
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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