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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Splice Machine vs. Splunk vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
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Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

splicemachine.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Splice Machine

Splunk Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2005

2014

2003

2005

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

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

ACID

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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