DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Doris vs. MySQL vs. SiriDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Doris vs. MySQL vs. SiriDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#247	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

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

www.mysql.com

siridb.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.siridb.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Cesbit

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2007

2017

1995

2017

2003

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

MIT 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

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL client

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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