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DBMS > Riak KV vs. SAP IQ vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. SAP IQ vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

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NameRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsAnalytics Platform for Big DataPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.splunk.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunksql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSAP, formerly SybaseSplunk Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2009199420032012
Current release3.2.0, December 202216.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangyesyesno
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSAP/Sybase Replication ServerMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesno

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