DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. FileMaker vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. FileMaker vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blueflood.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rackspace

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

1983

2003

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users and roles

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