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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. MaxDB 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 robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

geode.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

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.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2002

1984

2003

Current release

1.1, February 2017

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud 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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
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.

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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