DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Memcached vs. Riak TS vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Memcached vs. Riak TS vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.memcached.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

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

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2003

2015

2003

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

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

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

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

yes, limited

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

links between datasets can be stored

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights for users and roles

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