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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splunk vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name	HyperSQL also known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	Splunk  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java also known as HSQLDB	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Analytics Platform for Big Data	Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Search engine	Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 3.23 Rank #93   Overall #48   Relational DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 89.10 Rank #14   Overall #2   Search engines	Score 0.05 Rank #386   Overall #16   Vector DBMS
Website	hsqldb.org	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.splunk.com	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentation	hsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	docs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
Developer		Microsoft	Splunk Inc.
Initial release	2001	2016	2003	2023
Current release	2.7.2, June 2023			1.0, May 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source based on BSD license	commercial	commercial Limited free edition and free developer edition available	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	Java	C++		C++
Server operating systems	All OS with a Java VM Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes	hosted	Linux OS X Solaris Windows	Linux macOS
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	Vector, Numeric and String
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.	no	no	yes	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes	no Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands	no
APIs and other access methods	HTTP API JDBC via HTTP JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	HTTP REST	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC Java	C# Java PHP	C# Java JavaScript PHP Python Ruby	C++ Java Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Java, SQL	Transact SQL	yes	no
Triggers	yes	no	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	Sharding	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes	Multi-source replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	no A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes		no	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes	Access rights for users and roles	Role based access control and fine grained access rights
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	HyperSQL also known as HSQLDB	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	Splunk	Transwarp Hippo
DB-Engines blog posts			Enterprise Search Engines almost double their popularity in the last 12 months 2 July 2014, Paul Andlinger show all
Recent citations in the news	HyperSQL DataBase flaw leaves library vulnerable to RCE 24 October 2022, The Daily Swig Introduction to JDBC with HSQLDB tutorial 14 November 2022, TheServerSide.com provided by Google News	General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA | Azure updates 8 April 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support | Azure updates 22 March 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics: Everything you need to know about Microsoft's cloud analytics platform 24 September 2023, DataScientest Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT | Amazon Web Services 18 October 2023, AWS Blog Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024 26 March 2024, eWeek provided by Google News

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