DBMS > JSqlDb vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

rocksdb.org

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

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2018

2013

1992

2014

2003

Current release

0.8, December 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

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

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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