DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Access vs. RavenDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Access vs. RavenDB vs. Splunk

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Name

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

ravendb.net

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

ravendb.net/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Atos Convergence Creators

Microsoft

Hibernating Rhinos

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

1992

2010

2003

Current release

1703

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license 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++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language (RQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

but no files for transaction logging

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Access rights for users and roles

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