DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Fauna vs. Google BigQuery vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Fauna vs. Google BigQuery vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.55
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#72	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

fauna.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.fauna.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon

Fauna, Inc.

Google

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

2010

2003

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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.

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

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