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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigObject vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiteWhere vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigObject vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiteWhere vs. Splunk

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 ScioreAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#342  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#367  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score88.71
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigobject.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bigobject.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.SAP infoformerly SybaseSiteWhereSplunk Inc.
Initial release20072015199220102003
Current release17, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial 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 infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTHTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-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
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles

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