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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Splunk vs. XTDB

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Name	Microsoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Splunk  Xexclude from comparison	XTDB formerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
		SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Analytics Platform for Big Data	A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database model	Wide column store	Relational DBMS	Search engine	Document store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 4.04 Rank #77   Overall #6   Wide column stores		Score 89.10 Rank #14   Overall #2   Search engines	Score 0.18 Rank #332   Overall #46   Document stores
Website	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.splunk.com	github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb www.xtdb.com
Technical documentation			docs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk	www.xtdb.com/­docs
Developer	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP	Splunk Inc.	Juxt Ltd.
Initial release	2012	1993	2003	2019
Current release				1.19, September 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial Limited free edition and free developer edition available	Open Source MIT License
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language				Clojure
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Windows	Linux OS X Solaris Windows	All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM Linux
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	yes, extensible-data-notation format
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.	no	no	yes	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	no Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands	limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methods	RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	HTTP REST	HTTP REST JDBC
Supported programming languages	.Net C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby	Delphi Perl PHP	C# Java JavaScript PHP Python Ruby	Clojure Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	yes	no
Triggers	no	yes	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	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	yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	optimistic locking	ACID	no A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Access rights for users and roles
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	Microsoft Azure Table Storage	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Splunk	XTDB formerly named Crux
DB-Engines blog posts			Enterprise Search Engines almost double their popularity in the last 12 months 2 July 2014, Paul Andlinger show all
Recent citations in the news	Working with Azure to Use and Manage Data Lakes 7 March 2024, Simplilearn How to use Azure Table storage in .Net 14 January 2019, InfoWorld How to Use C# Azure.Data.Tables SDK with Azure Cosmos DB 9 July 2021, hackernoon.com Inside Azure File Storage 7 October 2015, Microsoft How to write data to Azure Table Store with an Azure Function 14 April 2017, Experts Exchange provided by Google News	SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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