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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Coveo vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.coveo.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.coveo.com

help.sap.com/hana

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Coveo

SAP

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2015

2012

2010

2003

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

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

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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