DBMS > jBASE vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. OpenSearch 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 robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

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

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Amazon Web Services

Sybase, SAP

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1991

2021

1993

2003

Current release

5.7

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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