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System Properties Comparison Realm vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. StarRocks vs. TiDB

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NameRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataAnalytics Platform for Big DataAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websiterealm.iowww.snowflake.comwww.splunk.comwww.starrocks.iopingcap.com
Technical documentationrealm.io/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Snowflake Computing Inc.Splunk Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023PingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20142014200320202016
Current release3.3, June 20248.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaGo, Rust
Server operating systemsAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJDBC
MySQL protocol
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languages.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryuser defined functionsyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoChange Listenersno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)horizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replicationUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoIn-Memory realmnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users and rolesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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RealmSnowflakeSplunkStarRocksTiDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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