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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. NSDb vs. Splunk vs. SQream DB

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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, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Analytics Platform for Big Data

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

nsdb.io

www.splunk.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Amazon

Splunk Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2007

2017

2003

2017

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

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, Scala

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP REST

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

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

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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 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

Amazon DynamoDB Serves Trillions Of Requests Per Month While Counterpart SimpleDB Is No Longer A Listed ...
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

Good Advice on Keeping Your Database Simple and Fast.
25 March 2009, All Things Distributed

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