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DBMS > Spark SQL vs. Splunk vs. Teradata vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Spark SQL vs. Splunk vs. Teradata vs. VelocityDB

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NameSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingAnalytics Platform for Big DataA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitespark.apache.org/­sqlwww.splunk.comwww.teradata.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.teradata.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSplunk Inc.TeradataVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2014200319842011
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Linux
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelno
TriggersnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, utilizing Spark CoreShardingSharding infoHashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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