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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Machbase Neo vs. Manticore Search vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Machbase Neo vs. Manticore Search vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineSearch engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.79
Rank#66  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#348  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#301  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score93.02
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.ehcache.orgmachbase.commanticoresearch.comsphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationmachbase.com/­dbmsmanual.manticoresearch.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGMachbaseManticore SoftwareSphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20092013201720012003
Current release3.10.0, March 2022V8.0, August 20236.0, February 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannoyes
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.nonoCan index from XMLyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJCachegRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
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 proceduresnonouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factorSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnono 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 persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachnoyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes 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.yesyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlnonoAccess rights for users and roles

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