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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. H2GIS vs. HarperDB vs. Splunk

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  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 ScioreBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsSpatial extension of H2Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.harperdb.iowww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAmazonCNRSHarperDBSplunk Inc.
Initial release20072016201320172003
Current release3.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaNode.js
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesdynamic schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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 automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2Custom Functions infosince release 3.1yes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryes infobased on H2yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedMulti-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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles

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