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DBMS > SAP IQ vs. Solr vs. Splunk vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison SAP IQ vs. Solr vs. Splunk vs. Vitess

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NameSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAnalytics Platform for Big DataScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedSearch engineSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlsolr.apache.orgwww.splunk.comvitess.io
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperSAP, formerly SybaseApache Software FoundationSplunk Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release1994200620032013
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 20199.6.0, April 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGo
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava pluginsyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSAP/Sybase Replication ServeryesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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