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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiteWhere vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

altibase.com

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

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Altibase

SAP

formerly Sybase

SiteWhere

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1999

1992

2010

2003

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and roles

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