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

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

sphinxsearch.com

www.splunk.com

trafodion.apache.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2001

2003

2014

2019

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes, via HBase

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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