DBMS > Spark SQL vs. Splunk vs. SWC-DB vs. Teradata Aster vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Spark SQL vs. Splunk vs. SWC-DB vs. Teradata Aster vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

spark.apache.org/sql

www.splunk.com

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

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Splunk Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Teradata

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2003

2020

2005

2011

Current release

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

0.5, April 2021

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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
OLE DB

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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