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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. GBase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GBase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. TimesTen

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsAnalytics Platform for Big DataIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.gbase.cnwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.splunk.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.SAP infoformerly SybaseSplunk Inc.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20122004199220031998
Current release29.0.1, April 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c17, July 201511 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, Python
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingStandard with numerous extensionsyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlyesPL/SQL
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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