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System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

nsdb.io

objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2017

1992

2003

Current release

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

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

Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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