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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

maxdb.sap.com

www.progress.com/openedge

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Progress Software Corporation

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1984

2003

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

close to SQL 92

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

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