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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. StarRocks

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.RDBMS 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 Doris
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  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
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.splunk.comwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperFoundationDBSAP infoformerly SybaseSplunk Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release2013199220032020
Current release6.2.28, November 202017, July 20152.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnono
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 searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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