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DBMS > Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. SingleStore vs. Splunk vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. SingleStore vs. Splunk vs. YTsaurus

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NamePostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeAnalytics Platform for Big DataYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#340  Overall
#45  Document stores
#50  Key-value stores
Websitewww.postgres-xl.orgquasar.aiwww.singlestore.comwww.splunk.comytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.singlestore.comdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperquasardbSingleStore Inc.Splunk Inc.Yandex
Initial release2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2009201320032023
Current release10 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 20248.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++, GoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Ubuntu
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyesyes
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.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query languageyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APICluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infohash partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoMVCCACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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