DBMS > SAP HANA vs. Splunk vs. SWC-DB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison SAP HANA vs. Splunk vs. SWC-DB vs. Trafodion

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Name

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

Description

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.splunk.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

SAP

Splunk Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2010

2003

2020

2014

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.5, April 2021

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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