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DBMS > gStore vs. Qdrant vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison gStore vs. Qdrant vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

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NamegStore  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMSSearch engineSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.04
Rank#359  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteen.gstore.cngithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
sphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsqdrant.tech/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperQdrantSphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release2016202120012003
Current release1.2, November 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++RustC++
Server operating systemsLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleannoyes
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 indexesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
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 proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCollection-level replicationnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedKey-based authenticationnoAccess rights for users and roles

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