DBMS > Geode vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Snowflake 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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

geode.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

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.

InterSystems

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2002

2018

2014

2003

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

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

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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 query language (OQL)

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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