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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. RocksDB 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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.monetdb.org

rocksdb.org

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

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

MonetDB BV

Facebook, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2004

2013

1993

2003

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

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

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

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.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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