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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Hyprcubd vs. Splunk vs. YDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd 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 ScioreAnalytic DBMS for HadoopServerless Time Series DBMSAnalytics Platform for Big DataA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.splunk.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaHyprcubd, Inc.Splunk Inc.Yandex
Initial release2007201320032019
Current release4.1.0, June 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
gRPC (https)HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyesno
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate 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 searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberostoken accessAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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