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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. JSqlDb vs. Machbase Neo vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. JSqlDb vs. Machbase Neo vs. Splunk

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSSearch engine
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orgjsqldb.org (offline)machbase.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designmachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsKonrad von BackstromMachbaseSplunk Inc.
Initial release20072012201820132003
Current release29.0.1, April 20240.8, December 2018V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Sourcecommercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonofunctions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonono 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 persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDBnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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