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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. Splunk vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Analytics Platform for Big Data

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io

www.splunk.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Microsoft

Splunk Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2016

2017

2003

2012

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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 fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

Java
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

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

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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