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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. Splunk vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	1172.46
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	86.64
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.97
Rank	#157	Overall
	#27	Key-value stores

Website

www.mysql.com

www.splunk.com

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1995

2003

2008

Current release

8.0.33, April 2023

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Open binary protocol

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Hash sharding based on virtual buckets

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes, with SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID, read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, regular snapshots on disk, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

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