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

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

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NameSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingAnalytics Platform for Big DataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitespark.apache.org/­sqlwww.splunk.comterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSplunk Inc.DataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release2014200320182011
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 202311.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaProlog, RustC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAny 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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesno
TriggersnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, utilizing Spark CoreShardingGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual 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 persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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