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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. DolphinDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Alibaba

DolphinDB, Inc

Amazon Web Services

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2018

2021

2003

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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