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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. gStore vs. Percona Server for MongoDB 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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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

Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#250	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

en.gstore.cn

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon

Percona

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2007

2016

2015

2003

Current release

1.2, November 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL Version 2

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

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

yes

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.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights for users and roles

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