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DBMS > Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. TigerGraph vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. TigerGraph vs. Trafodion

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NameSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAnalytics Platform for Big DataA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitesphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.comwww.tigergraph.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.tigergraph.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2001200320172014
Current release3.5.1, February 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolHTTP RESTGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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