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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. Splunk

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeSearch engine
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsSplunk Inc.
Initial release20192007201220162003
Current release29.0.1, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaPython
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL for queryingnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyesAccess rights for users and roles

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