DB-EnginesExtremeDB for everyone with an RTOSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Solr vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Solr vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. Trino

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score4.99
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitesolr.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlsphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.comtrino.io
Technical documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-workstrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.Splice MachineTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20062014200120142012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release9.6.1, May 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.5.1, February 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Starburst Galaxy offers a feature-rich user interface to connect all your data sources, manage your Trino clusters, and query your data.
Implementation languageJavaScalaC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesnoyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languages.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava pluginsnonoyes infoJavayes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic lockingnonoACIDdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardSQL standard access control
More information provided by the system vendor
SolrSpark SQLSphinxSplice MachineTrino
Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
» more
Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
» more
Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
» more
Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
» more
Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
» more
News

One busy week to go before Trino Fest 2024
6 June 2024

60: Trino calling AI
22 May 2024

Big names round out the Trino Fest 2024 lineup
8 May 2024

59: Querying Trino with Java and jOOQ
24 April 2024

A sneak peek of Trino Fest 2024
15 April 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
SolrSpark SQLSphinxSplice MachineTrino
DB-Engines blog posts

Elasticsearch replaced Solr as the most popular search engine
12 January 2016, Paul Andlinger

Enterprise Search Engines almost double their popularity in the last 12 months
2 July 2014, Paul Andlinger

The DB-Engines ranking includes now search engines
4 February 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

The DB-Engines ranking includes now search engines
4 February 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

SOLR-led walkout demands better conditions for Compass workers
27 February 2024, Daily Northwestern

Solr Network Launches Groundbreaking Solana Token Creator
28 May 2024, AccessWire

(SOLR) Technical Data
17 May 2024, Stock Traders Daily

SOLR hosts teach-in of labor movements at Northwestern
28 January 2024, Daily Northwestern

Top 5 stock gainers and losers: SOLR.V, GRSL.V, ANON.C
21 November 2023, Equity.Guru

provided by Google News

Use Amazon Athena with Spark SQL for your open-source transactional table formats | Amazon Web Services
24 January 2024, AWS Blog

What is Apache Spark? The big data platform that crushed Hadoop
3 April 2024, InfoWorld

Cracking the Apache Spark Interview: 80+ Top Questions and Answers for 2024
1 April 2024, Simplilearn

Performant IPv4 Range Spark Joins | by Jean-Claude Cote
24 January 2024, Towards Data Science

Simba Technologies(R) Introduces New, Powerful JDBC Driver With SQL Connector for Apache Spark(TM)
17 March 2024, Yahoo Singapore News

provided by Google News

Switching From Sphinx to MkDocs Documentation — What Did I Gain and Lose
2 February 2024, Towards Data Science

5 Powerful Alternatives to Elasticsearch
25 April 2024, Insider Monkey

Manticore is a Faster Alternative to Elasticsearch in C++
25 July 2022, hackernoon.com

Royal Mail stamp prices could rise, warns Czech Sphinx
3 June 2024, Proactive Investors UK

Perplexity AI: From Its Use To Operation, Everything You Need To Know About Google's Newest Challenger
11 January 2024, Free Press Journal

provided by Google News

Machine learning data pipeline outfit Splice Machine files for insolvency
26 August 2021, The Register

Splice Machine Launches the Splice Machine Feature Store to Simplify Feature Engineering and Democratize Machine ...
19 January 2021, PR Newswire

Splice Machine Launches Feature Store to Simplify Feature Engineering
19 January 2021, Datanami

Real-time machine learning with Splice Machine's ML Manager
17 April 2019, TechTarget

How To Axe Db2 But Keep Your Code
10 March 2020, Towards Data Science

provided by Google News

The Perfect AI Storage: Trino From Facebook And Iceberg From Netflix?
30 April 2024, The Next Platform

Starburst Brings Dataframes Into Trino Platform
7 September 2023, Datanami

Query big data with resilience using Trino in Amazon EMR with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances for less cost | Amazon ...
4 October 2023, AWS Blog

A look at Presto, Trino SQL query engines
9 August 2022, TechTarget

Trino: The Open-source Data Query Engine That Split from Facebook
30 March 2022, hackernoon.com

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here