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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

druid.apache.org

geode.apache.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

geode.apache.org/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

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

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2008

2012

2002

1987

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

30.0.0, June 2024

1.1, February 2017

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

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

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication

Source-replica 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

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes, on a single node

yes

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 for users can be defined per object

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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