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DBMS > searchxml vs. Solr vs. Splunk vs. Sqrrl vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison searchxml vs. Solr vs. Splunk vs. Sqrrl vs. Tigris

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Namesearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAnalytics Platform for Big DataAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engineSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssolr.apache.orgwww.splunk.comsqrrl.comwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
Developerinformationpartners gmbhApache Software FoundationSplunk Inc.Amazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Tigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20152006200320122022
Current release1.09.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsWindowsAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs.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
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoon the application serverJava pluginsyesnono
Triggersnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infomaking use of HadoopSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeroptimistic lockingno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyesAccess rights for users and rolesCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)Access rights for users and roles

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