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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. Memcached vs. searchxml vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. Memcached vs. searchxml vs. Splunk

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSKey-value storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.memcached.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.splunk.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCCRi and othersDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalinformationpartners gmbhSplunk Inc.
Initial release20142014200320152003
Current release5.0.0, May 20241.6.27, May 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoon the application serveryes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layernonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layernone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonomultiple readers, single writerno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesAccess rights for users and roles

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