DBMS > Netezza vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. Splice Machine vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Netezza vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. Splice Machine vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

rocksdb.org

splicemachine.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

IBM

Percona

Facebook, Inc.

Splice Machine

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2000

2008

2013

2014

2003

Current release

8.0.36-28, 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

included in appliance

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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