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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Coveo vs. Splunk

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.orgwww.coveo.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.coveo.comdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationCoveoSplunk Inc.
Initial release2007201220122003
Current release1.20.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoyesno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Depending on the underlying data sourcegranular access controls, API key management, content filtersAccess rights for users and roles

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