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DBMS > GridDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kdb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kdb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBHigh performance Time Series DBMSRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegriddb.netwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantkx.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantcode.kx.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperToshiba CorporationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSAP infoformerly SybaseSplunk Inc.
Initial release201320102000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200319922003
Current release5.1, August 20223.6, May 201817, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Erlangq
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampnoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noSQL-like query language (q)yesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes
Triggersyesyesyes infowith viewsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyesno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles
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GridDBIBM CloudantKdbSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSplunk
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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