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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebird vs. InfinityDB vs. KairosDB vs. Splunk

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.firebirdsql.orgboilerbay.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualkairosdb.github.iodocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAmazonFirebird FoundationBoiler Bay Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200220132003
Current release5.0.0, January 20244.01.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen 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 languageC and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnosimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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