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DBMS > BigObject vs. dBASE vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. searchxml vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. searchxml vs. Splunk

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitebigobject.iowww.dbase.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateSAP infoformerly Sybaseinformationpartners gmbhSplunk Inc.
Initial release20151979199220152003
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201917, July 20151.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
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.noyesyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes infoon the application serveryes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDmultiple readers, single writerno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesAccess rights for users and roles

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