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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Search engine

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Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Hughes Technologies

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1994

2009

1994

2003

Current release

4.4, October 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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