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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Splunk vs. TimesTen vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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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

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Key-value store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Search engine

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

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.splunk.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Amazon

Splunk Inc.

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Transwarp

Initial release

2007

2003

1998

Current release

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

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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Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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)

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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