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DBMS > SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Solr vs. Splunk vs. ToroDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Solr vs. Splunk vs. ToroDB vs. Vitess

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NameSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAnalytics Platform for Big DataA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsolr.apache.orgwww.splunk.comgithub.com/­torodb/­servervitess.io
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperSAP infoformerly SybaseApache Software FoundationSplunk Inc.8KdataThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release19922006200320162013
Current release17, July 20159.6.0, April 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VMDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes
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.yesyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlJava pluginsyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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