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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2011

2014

2003

Current release

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

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.

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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