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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. JSqlDb vs. Netezza vs. Splunk

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  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 primitivesData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational 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
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orgjsqldb.org (offline)www.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsKonrad von BackstromIBMSplunk Inc.
Initial release20072012201820002003
Current release29.0.1, April 20240.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceLinux
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingnoyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonofunctions in JavaScriptyesyes
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 enginesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
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 applicationnoACIDno 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 RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
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 systemUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles

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