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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Splunk vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Splunk vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudWidely used in-process key-value storeAnalytics Platform for Big DataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Search engineRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.splunk.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSplunk Inc.Transaction Software GmbHJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20121994200319872019
Current release18.1.40, May 2020Transbase 8.3, 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C and C++Clojure
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesno
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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