DBMS > Geode vs. GigaSpaces vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. GigaSpaces vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

geode.apache.org

www.gigaspaces.com

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

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

Gigaspaces Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2002

2000

2013

2015

2003

Current release

1.1, February 2017

15.5, September 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

yes

multiple readers, single writer

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Role-based access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights for users and roles

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