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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. InfinityDB vs. Splunk vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

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

Key-value store

Search engine

Key-value store

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

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.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2002

2003

2020

Current release

1.1, February 2017

4.0

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

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

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

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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