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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. STSdb

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAnalytics Platform for Big DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineSearch engineKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitepinot.apache.orgsphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsSphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release2015200120032011
Current release1.0.0, September 20233.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yes
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocolHTTP REST.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesno

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