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System Properties Comparison Oracle vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

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

Description

Widely used RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
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Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database

www.splunk.com

trafodion.apache.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Oracle

Splunk Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Transwarp

Initial release

1980

2003

2014

Current release

23c, September 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

with proprietary extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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