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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SpaceTime 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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Mireo

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2007

2010

2020

2003

License

Commercial or Open Source

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

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

atomic operations within a document possible

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

Optimistic locking

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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Recent citations in the news

A Place for Everything – Amazon SimpleDB | AWS News Blog
14 December 2007, AWS Blog

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12 November 2013, TechCrunch

An Overview of Amazon Web Services - Cloud Application Architectures [Book]
22 September 2018, O'Reilly Media

Amazon SimpleDB Management in Eclipse | AWS News Blog
22 July 2009, AWS Blog

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25 March 2009, All Things Distributed

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1 December 2014, Linux.com

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