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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Kdb vs. Splunk vs. Teradata

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHigh performance Time Series DBMSAnalytics Platform for Big DataA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchkx.comwww.splunk.comwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcode.kx.comdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSplunk Inc.Teradata
Initial release201420122000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320031984
Current release3.6, May 2018Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptq
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query language (q)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP REST.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyesyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersyesnoyes infowith viewsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AlaSQLAmazon CloudSearchKdbSplunkTeradata
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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