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System Properties Comparison SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Analytics Platform for Big Data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.splunk.com

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Sybase, SAP

Splunk Inc.

Simer Plaha

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1993

2003

2018

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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