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DBMS > Hive vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. Tigris

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAnalytics Platform for Big DataA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.comwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSAP infoformerly SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.Tigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20121992200120032022
Current release3.1.3, April 202217, July 20153.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolHTTP RESTCLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnoneMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles

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