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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

1991

2014

2003

Current release

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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