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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NuoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/hana

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2015

2013

2010

2003

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

Multi-source replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

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

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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