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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. OushuDB vs. Pinecone vs. Splunk

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningA managed, cloud-native vector databaseAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBwww.pinecone.iowww.splunk.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverwww.oushu.com/­documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperMicrosoftOushuPinecone Systems, IncSplunk Inc.
Initial release198920192003
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20224.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesFull-featured ANSI SQL supportnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
PythonC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayesyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKerberos, SSL and role based accessAccess rights for users and roles

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