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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

phoenix.apache.org

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2019

2014

2013

2003

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

yes

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

Access rights for users and roles

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access rights for users and roles

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