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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSSearch engineSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitedruid.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogleSAP infoformerly SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20122008199220012003
Current release29.0.1, April 202417, July 20153.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details hereyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query language (GQL)yesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnousing Google App Engineyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnoyes
TriggersnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication using PaxosSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles

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