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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Splunk vs. Typesense vs. Vertica vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

typesense.org/docs

vertica.com/documentation

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Amazon

Splunk Inc.

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2003

2015

2005

2023

Current release

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

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

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; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

Access Control Lists

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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