DBMS > ObjectBox vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splice Machine vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splice Machine vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#170	Overall
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Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

objectbox.io

rocksdb.org

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

splicemachine.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splice Machine

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2017

2013

1992

2014

2003

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

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 and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

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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