DBMS > RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. searchxml vs. Splunk vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. searchxml vs. Splunk vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Analytics Platform for Big Data

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Search engine

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

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Trend Chart

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

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

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

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.splunk.com

typedb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

informationpartners gmbh

Splunk Inc.

Vaticle

Initial release

2013

1992

2015

2003

2016

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

1.0

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights for users and roles

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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