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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Realm vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

realm.io

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

realm.io/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

2003

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

Multi-source replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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