DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

rocksdb.org

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

www.splunk.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2010

2013

1992

2003

2011

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

yes

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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