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DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAnalytics Platform for Big DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serversphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serversphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.STS Soft SCTranswarp
Initial release1989200120032011
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20223.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.yesyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionnoneMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesno

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