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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytics Platform for Big DataTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelSearch engineSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.splunk.comtrafodion.apache.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunktrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmldocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperAmazonSplunk Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPTranswarp
Initial release201220032014
Current release2.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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