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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BoltDB vs. Memcached vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An embedded key-value store for Go.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.memcached.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2003

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD license

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

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights for users and roles

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