DBMS > mSQL vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. Trino

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	5.10
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rocksdb.org

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

www.splunk.com

trino.io

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

1994

2013

1992

2003

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

4.4, October 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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