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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.monetdb.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sadasengine.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

MonetDB BV

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SADAS s.r.l.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2004

1984

2006

2003

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

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++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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 2003 with some extensions

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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