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System Properties Comparison KeyDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.keydb.dev

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Kyligence, Inc.

Microsoft

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2019

2016

1989

2003

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

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

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

simple password-based access control and ACL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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