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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Axibase vs. Splunk vs. Teradata vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Axibase vs. Splunk vs. Teradata vs. Vertica

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationAnalytics Platform for Big DataA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.32
Rank#288  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score88.71
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score47.84
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score11.40
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.splunk.comwww.teradata.comwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.teradata.comvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonAxibase CorporationSplunk Inc.TeradataOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20122013200319842005
Current release15585Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 201912.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Linux
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingSharding infoHashinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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Amazon CloudSearchAxibaseSplunkTeradataVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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