DBMS > Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenEdge 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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.progress.com/openedge

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

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Sybase, SAP

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

1984

1993

2003

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

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

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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