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

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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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	47.84
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.splunk.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Splunk Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2003

1984

Current release

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

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

Access managed on TSDB instance level

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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