DBMS > MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.progress.com/marklogic

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2001

2010

1992

2003

Current release

11.0, December 2022

V12

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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

SQL92

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Transact SQL

SQLScript, R

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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