DBMS > searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. Speedb vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. Speedb vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

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Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

www.speedb.io

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Speedb

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2015

2014

2020

2003

Current release

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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