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DBMS > PouchDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

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NamePouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitepouchdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlspark.apache.org/­sqlsphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guideshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSAP infoformerly SybaseApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20121992201420012003
Current release7.1.1, June 201917, July 20153.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnonoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnonenoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoAccess rights for users and roles

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