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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splice Machine vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

splicemachine.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

Splice Machine

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2005

2016

2014

2003

Current release

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

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

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
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.

yes

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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