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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RethinkDB vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
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Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rethinkdb.com

www.splunk.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Microsoft

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Splunk Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2016

2009

2003

2012

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

range based

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

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

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

users and table-level permissions

Access rights for users and roles

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