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DBMS > Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

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NameOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOracles in-memory data grid solutionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAnalytics Platform for Big DataPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencesphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencesphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunksql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperOracleSphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2007200120032012
Current release14.1, August 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP RESTJavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersyes infoLive Eventsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelnoneMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurablenono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infooptionallyyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnoAccess rights for users and rolesno

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