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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Lovefield vs. Spark SQL vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Lovefield vs. Spark SQL vs. Splunk

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn embedded key-value store for Go.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAmazonGoogleApache Software FoundationSplunk Inc.
Initial release20122013201420142003
Current release2.1.12, February 20173.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScriptJava
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonenoneyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnonenonenoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnononoAccess rights for users and roles

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