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System Properties Comparison SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splice Machine vs. Splunk vs. VelocityDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

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

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splice Machine

Splunk Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Yandex

Initial release

1992

2014

2003

2011

2023

Current release

17, July 2015

3.1, March 2021

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Ubuntu

Data scheme

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

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

HTTP REST

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Based on Windows Authentication

Access Control Lists

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