DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Heroic vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Heroic vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon

Spotify

Percona

Alessandro Furieri

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

2015

2008

2003

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

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

Source-replica replication

none

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
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.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

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 and roles

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