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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blueflood vs. SAP IQ vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

blueflood.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon

Rackspace

SAP, formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2007

2013

1994

2003

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

based on Cassandra

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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