DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Riak KV vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Riak KV vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

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

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

sphinxsearch.com

www.splunk.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Amazon

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Splunk Inc.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

2009

2001

2003

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
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

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

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

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

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

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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