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System Properties Comparison SAP IQ vs. Solr vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	44.28
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

solr.apache.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

SAP, formerly Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1994

2006

2003

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

9.5.0, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java plugins

yes

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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