DBMS > MySQL vs. NCache vs. Splunk vs. StarRocks vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. NCache vs. Splunk vs. StarRocks vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.splunk.com

www.starrocks.io

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alachisoft

Splunk Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1995

2005

2003

2020

2014

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

2.5.3, March 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

JDBC
MySQL protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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

Access rights for users and roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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