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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. GeoSpock vs. KairosDB vs. searchxml vs. Splunk

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be 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 ScioreSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgeospock.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbkairosdb.github.iowww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAmazonGeoSpockinformationpartners gmbhSplunk Inc.
Initial release2007201320152003
Current release2.0, September 20191.2.2, November 20181.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallytemporal, categoricalnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoon the application serveryes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsMulti-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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
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 applicationnonomultiple readers, single writerno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 can be defined per tablesimple password-based access controlDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesAccess rights for users and roles

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