DBMS > Cubrid vs. Drizzle vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Drizzle vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

sphinxsearch.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2008

2001

2003

Current release

11.0, January 2021

7.2.4, September 2012

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users and roles

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