DBMS > Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. TempoIQ vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. TempoIQ vs. YottaDB

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Name

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Description

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

TempoIQ

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

2003

2012

2001

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

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

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

optimistic locking

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

simple authentication-based access control

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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