DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SingleStore vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SingleStore vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.singlestore.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.singlestore.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Embarcadero

Microsoft

SingleStore Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2010

1984

1989

2013

2003

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

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

Optimistic locking

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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 rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles

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