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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. mSQL vs. searchxml 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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Search engine

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

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

geode.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

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.

Hughes Technologies

informationpartners gmbh

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2002

1994

2015

2003

Current release

1.1, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

free licenses can be provided

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
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

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
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

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

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights for users and roles

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