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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebird vs. Machbase Neo vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebird vs. Machbase Neo vs. Splunk

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  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 InterBaseTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime 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
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.firebirdsql.orgmachbase.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAmazonFirebird FoundationMachbaseSplunk Inc.
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20132003
Current release5.0.0, January 2024V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono 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 writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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