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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Geode vs. Lovefield vs. Splunk vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

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

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebolt.io

geode.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.splunk.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

geode.apache.org/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

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

Google

Splunk Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2020

2002

2014

2003

2020

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2.1.12, February 2017

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users and roles

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