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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Impala vs. JaguarDB vs. MaxDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

DataJaguar, Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2015

1984

2003

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.3 July 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

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

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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