DBMS > etcd vs. Hypertable vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Hypertable vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

help.sap.com/hana

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Percona

SAP

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2009

2008

2010

2003

Current release

3.4, August 2019

0.9.8.11, March 2016

8.0.36-28, 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

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

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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