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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Lovefield vs. Splunk vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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 fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.11
Rank	#174	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.splunk.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

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

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

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

Google

Splunk Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2002

2014

2003

2022

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2.1.12, February 2017

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Rust

Server operating systems

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
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

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

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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