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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

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

www.splunk.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2008

1992

2003

2011

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

17, July 2015

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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 or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

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

ACID

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Based on Windows Authentication

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