DBMS > Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	7.56
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2000

2014

2003

2001

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

schema-free

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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