DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.89
Rank	#137	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

rocksdb.org

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

www.splunk.com

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

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Rocket Software

Initial release

2019

2013

1992

2003

1985

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-document operations

yes

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

configurable

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 rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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