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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. PieCloudDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#304  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.openpie.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.snowflake.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serversitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperMicrosoftOpenPieSiteWhereSnowflake Computing Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release1989201020142003
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20222.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javauser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationyesSharding infobased on HBaseyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users and roles
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft SQL ServerPieCloudDBSiteWhereSnowflakeSplunk
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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