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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. Prometheus vs. Splunk vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

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NameMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWidely used open source RDBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemAnalytics Platform for Big Dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APITime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.mysql.comprometheus.iowww.splunk.comsqream.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdev.mysql.com/­docprometheus.io/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.sqream.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunSplunk Inc.SQream TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19952015200320172014
Current release8.4.0, April 20242022.1.6, December 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++GoC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.yesno infoImport of XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoproprietary syntaxnoyesuser defined functions in PythonJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricShardingShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby FederationMulti-source replicationnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyesyesyes
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 controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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