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

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

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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

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

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

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

www.sequoiadb.com

www.splunk.com

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Amazon

Sybase, SAP

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Splunk Inc.

Timescale

Initial release

2012

1993

2013

2003

2017

Current release

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

ACID

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.

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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