DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Splunk vs. Teradata vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Splunk vs. Teradata vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.splunk.com

www.teradata.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.teradata.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

Splunk Inc.

Teradata

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2014

2003

1984

2011

Current release

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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