DBMS > Geode vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere 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 DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

geode.apache.org

realm.io

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

realm.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

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.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2002

2014

2013

1992

2003

Current release

1.1, February 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

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

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

yes

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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