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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. OpenQM vs. SAP Adaptive Server 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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.74
Rank	#134	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.26
Rank	#293	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	31.48
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	88.47
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SAP, Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2007

1993

1987

2003

Current release

3.4-12

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

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

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

yes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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