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System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

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NameJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document storeSearch engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.jaguardb.comrethinkdb.comsphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperDataJaguar, Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release2015200920012003
Current release3.3 July 20232.4.1, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 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 servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
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 proceduresnonoyes
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding inforange basedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsyes infousers and table-level permissionsnoAccess rights for users and roles

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