DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

maxdb.sap.com

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

1984

2013

2003

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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