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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Splunk

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Name	jBASE  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Splunk  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware	Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database model	Multivalue DBMS	Relational DBMS column oriented	Relational DBMS	Search engine
Secondary database models		Document store If a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell Event Store this is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps) Spatial DBMS Search engine support for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine Time Series DBMS see docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.49 Rank #156   Overall #3   Multivalue DBMS	Score 3.80 Rank #81   Overall #43   Relational DBMS		Score 89.10 Rank #14   Overall #2   Search engines
Website	www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.splunk.com
Technical documentation	docs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9	docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer		docs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
Developer	Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP	Splunk Inc.
Initial release	1991	2019	1993	2003
Current release	5.7	cloud service with continuous releases
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial Limited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Server operating systems	AIX Linux Windows	hosted	Linux Windows	Linux OS X Solaris Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	optional	yes bool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types	yes	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	yes	no	yes
Secondary indexes		all fields are automatically indexed	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC	Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset	yes	no Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC Proprietary protocol RESTful HTTP API SOAP-based API	Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS) RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	HTTP REST
Supported programming languages	.Net Basic Jabbascript Java	.Net Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PowerShell Python R	Delphi Perl PHP	C# Java JavaScript PHP Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R	yes	yes
Triggers	yes	yes see docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.	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	no	Spark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark	no	yes
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	ACID	no 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	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	Access rights can be defined down to the item level	Azure Active Directory Authentication	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Access rights for users and roles
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