DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Doris vs. Apache Impala vs. Oracle vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Doris vs. Apache Impala vs. Oracle vs. Splunk

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Widely used RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

impala.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Oracle

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

2013

1980

2003

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

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

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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