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

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	36.31
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	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

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

siridb.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.siridb.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon

SAP, Sybase

Cesbit

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2007

1987

2017

2003

Current release

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

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
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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 API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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