DBMS > RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

www.splunk.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2013

2010

1992

2003

2019

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

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

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

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 and roles

yes

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