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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Hypertable vs. InfluxDB vs. RavenDB vs. Splunk

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewravendb.netwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbravendb.net/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Hypertable Inc.Hibernating RhinosSplunk Inc.
Initial release20022009201320102003
Current release1.1, February 20170.9.8.11, March 20162.7.6, April 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++GoC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data and Stringsnoyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)noSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (RQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyesyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenonoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definablenosimple rights management via user accountsAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseAccess rights for users and roles
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