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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk vs. SQLite

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceAnalytics Platform for Big DataWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score45.84
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score88.71
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score116.01
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.splunk.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlhelp.sap.com/­hanadocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSAPSplunk Inc.Dwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2014201020032000
Current release2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20233.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono infoalso available as a cloud based servicenono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Appliance or cloud-serviceLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
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 infoStored proceduresnoSQLScript, Ryesno
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users and rolesno

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