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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Manticore Search vs. Qdrant vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineVector DBMSSearch 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
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmanticoresearch.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
sphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicmanual.manticoresearch.comqdrant.tech/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperSpotifyManticore SoftwareQdrantSphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20142017202120012003
Current release6.0, February 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++RustC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanNumbers, Strings, Geo, 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.noCan index from XMLnoyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
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 proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryCollection-level replicationnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes 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 persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes 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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoKey-based authenticationnoAccess rights for users and roles

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