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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SpaceTime vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

maxdb.sap.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

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

Oracle

Mireo

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1984

2011

2020

2003

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

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++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

C#
C++
Python

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

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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