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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Splunk

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.monetdb.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

MonetDB BV

Sybase, SAP

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2010

2004

1993

2003

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

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

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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