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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Splunk vs. TerminusDB

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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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Key-value store

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.88
Rank	#139	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.splunk.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon

Splunk Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2003

2018

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Journaling Streams

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

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

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

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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Recent citations in the news

New SimpleDB Goodies: Enhanced Select, Larger Result Sets, Mandatory HTTPS | Amazon Web Services
20 May 2009, AWS Blog

Hands-on Tutorial for Getting Started with Amazon SimpleDB
28 May 2010, Packt Hub

Amazon DynamoDB Serves Trillions Of Requests Per Month While Counterpart SimpleDB Is No Longer A Listed Product On AWS
12 November 2013, TechCrunch

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

Amazon Goes Back to the Future With 'NoSQL' Database
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1 December 2020, The New Stack

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15 March 2021, Tech.eu

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