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System Properties Comparison Solr vs. Splunk vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

solr.apache.org

www.splunk.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Splunk Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2006

2003

2012

Current release

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

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

schema-free

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

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java plugins

yes

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

simple authentication-based access control

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