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Name

Description

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.stardog.com

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Splice Machine

Splunk Inc.

Stardog-Union

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2014

2003

2010

2020

Current release

3.1, March 2021

7.3.0, May 2020

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

HTTP REST

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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 for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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