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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. jBASE vs. Sadas Engine vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
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	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

drill.apache.org

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

www.sadasengine.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SADAS s.r.l.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

1991

2006

2003

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

5.7

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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