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DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Qdrant vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Qdrant vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. XTDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsAnalytics Platform for Big DataA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.splunk.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlqdrant.tech/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftQdrantSAP infoformerly SybaseSplunk Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20102021199220032019
Current releaseV1217, July 20151.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++RustClojure
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableCollection-level replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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