DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. FileMaker vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. FileMaker vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Search engine

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Trend Chart

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

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

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

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.claris.com/filemaker

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

1983

2009

2013

2003

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

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

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

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

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users and roles

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