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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. Transbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsAnalytics Platform for Big DataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesSearch engineRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.splunk.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAlibabaMicrosoftSAP infoformerly SybaseSplunk Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20162015199220031987
Current releaseV117, July 2015Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyesyes
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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