DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. AntDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Qdrant vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. AntDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Qdrant vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Microsoft

Qdrant

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

2021

2003

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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 properties auto-indexed by default

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Collection-level replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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 can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Key-based authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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