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

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Description

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
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	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

2001

2003

2000

Current release

3.3 July 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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