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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. Splunk

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareIn-memory JavaScript DBMSAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbiotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.heavy.aitechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHEAVY.AI, Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20192018201620142003
Current release1.1.0, April 20235.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Sourcecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
Native API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JavaScript APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Sharding infoRound robinnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)Integration with Hadoop and Sparknoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate ConsistencynoneEventual 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 operationsnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles

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