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DBMS > Firebird vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. StarRocks vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. StarRocks vs. WakandaDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsAnalytics Platform for Big DataAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.splunk.comwww.starrocks.iowakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSAP infoformerly SybaseSplunk Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Wakanda SAS
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1992200320202012
Current release5.0.0, January 202417, July 20152.5.3, March 20232.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++, JavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJDBC
MySQL protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes

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