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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Newts vs. searchxml vs. Solr vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.89
Rank	#103	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/spanner

opennms.github.io/newts

www.searchxml.net/category/products

solr.apache.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

OpenNMS Group

informationpartners gmbh

Apache Software Foundation

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2017

2014

2015

2006

2003

Current release

1.0

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Java plugins

yes

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

multiple readers, single writer

optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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