DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. jBASE vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. jBASE vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

kylin.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

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

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2015

1991

1992

2003

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

5.7

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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 managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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