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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GBase vs. Geode vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2015

2004

2002

2003

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (OQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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 per client and object definable

Access rights for users and roles

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