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DBMS > Hive vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splice Machine vs. Splunk vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splice Machine vs. Splunk vs. VelocityDB

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkAnalytics Platform for Big DataA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsplicemachine.comwww.splunk.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSAP infoformerly SybaseSplice MachineSplunk Inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20121992201420032011
Current release3.1.3, April 202217, July 20153.1, March 20217.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
HTTP REST.Net
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes infoJavayesno
TriggersnoyesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoYes, via Full Spark Integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesBased on Windows Authentication

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