DBMS > FatDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. VelocityDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.splunk.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

FatCloud

Sybase, SAP

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

1993

1992

2003

2011

Current release

17, July 2015

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

.Net

Supported programming languages

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Based on Windows Authentication

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