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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Splunk vs. Tarantool

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsAnalytics Platform for Big DataIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.88
Rank#238  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score91.40
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.86
Rank#162  Overall
#26  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#76  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comwww.splunk.comwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperKineticaSplunk Inc.VK
Initial release201220032008
Current release7.1, August 20212.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTOpen binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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