DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#118	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.splunk.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Percona

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2008

1992

2003

2000

Current release

8.0.36-28, 2024

17, July 2015

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

none

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

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

via file-system locks

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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