DBMS > Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

postgis.net

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

www.splunk.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1984

2005

1992

2003

2020

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

17, July 2015

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

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

HP Open VMS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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