DBMS > Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NCache vs. OpenSearch vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NCache vs. OpenSearch vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Amazon Web Services

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2005

2021

2003

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes, with selectable consistency level

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
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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