DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.sadasengine.com

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

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

SADAS s.r.l.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2010

2006

1992

2003

Current release

8.0

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition 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

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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