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DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. Splunk

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseopentsdb.netwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSplunk Inc.
Initial release201020112003
Current releaseV12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles

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