Shieldlix vs Splunk
Why modern SOC teams are leaving legacy solutions behind and adopting Shieldlix.
Feature
Shieldlix
Splunk Enterprise / SOAR
Pricing & Licensing
100% Free. No ingestion limits, no per-seat fees.
Expensive ingest-based pricing. Punishes you for logging more data.
SIEM & SOAR Integration
Natively unified. Write a search, instantly trigger a playbook.
Separate products (Splunk ES vs Splunk SOAR). Separate licensing.
Search Performance
Sub-second petabyte search via Quickwit + ClickHouse columnar indexing.
Slow searches on massive datasets without extensive tuning.
Search Acceleration
Columnar indexes (Quickwit) + ClickHouse deliver sub-second queries without pre-built summaries or tstats.
Requires summary indexing and tstats to accelerate repeated queries on large datasets.
Architecture
Rust backend + Next.js 16 frontend. Memory-safe, GC-free.
Legacy Python/C++ backend. Heavy resource consumption.
Detection Rules
37,000+ rules from 60+ threat families. Threshold, correlation, anomaly.
1,700+ curated detections. Requires ES Premium for advanced features.
Risk-Based Alerting
Per-rule risk scores with incident grouping and severity mapping.
Full RBA with dedicated risk index. Industry-leading framework.
MITRE ATT&CK
Tactic/technique tags on all rules. Coverage API endpoint.
Full interactive matrix with gap analysis and coverage analytics.
SOAR Playbooks
4 pre-built playbooks. Code-based execution engine.
75+ pre-built playbooks. Visual drag-and-drop editor (VPE).
Third-Party Integrations
15 connector types (EDR, IAM, Firewall, etc.). Mock dispatch.
300+ apps, 2,800+ actions. Real-time connector execution.
UEBA
Anomaly rules with statistical baselines (mean + N*stddev).
Full UEBA with behavioral models, peer group analysis, ERS.
Threat Intelligence
Artifact upload (files). Watchlist rules in detection catalog.
Full TIM with live feeds, IOC enrichment, Cisco Talos integration.
Dashboards
8 panel types (line, bar, pie, table, single value, geom, area).
Data models, pivot tables, HTML dashboards, SPL-based.
ML / AI
Outlier detection, clustering, time-series forecast.
AI Assistant, ML framework, Automated Threat Analysis agent.
Case Management
Incident review with notable events, risk scoring, bulk actions.
Unified TDIR with analyst queue, investigation workbook, threat topology.
ITSI
Full ITSI: services, KPIs, topology, episodes, maintenance windows.
Requires Splunk ITSI add-on (separate license).
Deployment
Docker Compose + Kubernetes. Self-hosted, no vendor lock-in.
Splunk Cloud or on-prem. Complex cluster topology.
Query Language
SPL-style piped search. 65+ commands (eval, rex, stats, dedup, lookup, head, tail, sort, join, chart, timechart, table, top, rare, iplocation, etc.).
Full SPL with 200+ commands. Industry standard.
Data Retention
Per-index retention policies. Hot/warm/cold tiers via MinIO.
Flexible retention with summary indexing. Extensive tiering options.