DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Splunk vs. SQLite vs. Teradata vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Splunk vs. SQLite vs. Teradata vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

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	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.splunk.com

www.sqlite.org

www.teradata.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Amazon

Splunk Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Teradata

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2003

2000

1984

2015

Current release

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

hosted
Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

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

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

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

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

Sharding

Hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

via file-system locks

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 for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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