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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Postgres-XL vs. Splunk vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.postgres-xl.org

www.splunk.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2003

2015

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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