DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splunk

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sequoiadb.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon

Cambridge Semantics

Sybase, SAP

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2018

1993

2013

2003

Current release

2.3, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

yes

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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