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DBMS > Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. TinkerGraph

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NamePercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.RDBMS 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 lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineSearch engineGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperPerconaSAP infoformerly SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20151992200120032009
Current release3.4.10-2.10, November 201717, July 20153.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolHTTP RESTTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
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
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptyes, 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 supportedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnoneMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
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 searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovia In-Memory Engineyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesno

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