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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

sphinxsearch.com

www.splunk.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Splunk Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2001

2003

2011

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

Multi-source replication

none

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

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

Planned for future releases

Access rights for users and roles

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