DB-EnginesExtremeDB for everyone with an RTOSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. Geode vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. Geode vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.exasol.comgeode.apache.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.exasol.com/­resourcesgeode.apache.org/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software FoundationExasolOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Transaction Software GmbHVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20142000200219872011
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.1, February 2017Transbase 8.3, 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (OQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesyes infoCache Event ListenersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Apache PhoenixEXASOLGeodeTransbaseVelocityDB
DB-Engines blog posts

Cloudera's HBase PaaS offering now supports Complex Transactions
11 August 2021,  Krishna Maheshwari (sponsor) 

show all

Recent citations in the news

Supercharge SQL on Your Data in Apache HBase with Apache Phoenix | Amazon Web Services
2 June 2016, AWS Blog

Bridge the SQL-NoSQL gap with Apache Phoenix
4 February 2016, InfoWorld

Apache Calcite, FreeMarker, Gora, Phoenix, and Solr updated
27 March 2017, SDTimes.com

Azure HDInsight Analytics Platform Now Supports Apache Hadoop 3.0
18 April 2019, eWeek

Amazon EMR 4.7.0 – Apache Tez & Phoenix, Updates to Existing Apps | Amazon Web Services
2 June 2016, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

Exasol Finds AI Underinvestment Leads to Business Failure, But Data Challenges Stall Rapid Adoption
20 March 2024, businesswire.com

It's Back to the Database Future for Exasol CEO Tewes
26 October 2023, Datanami

Exasol gets jolt of AI with Espresso suite of capabilities
26 February 2024, TechTarget

Exasol Unveils New Suite of AI Tools to Turbocharge Enterprise Data Analytics
21 February 2024, businesswire.com

Exasol brings SaaS-flex to on-prem and public cloud systems
31 May 2023, The Register

provided by Google News

Apache Geode Spawns 'All Sorts of In-Memory Things'
4 January 2017, The New Stack

Where Does Apache Geode Fit in CQRS Architectures?
18 December 2016, InfoQ.com

1. Introduction to Pivotal GemFire In-Memory Data Grid and Apache Geode - Scaling Data Services with Pivotal ...
15 November 2018, O'Reilly Media

Event-Driven Architectures with Apache Geode and Spring Integration
20 March 2019, InfoQ.com

HPE buys query acceleration platform Ampool to boost Ezmeral hybrid cloud analytics
7 July 2021, SiliconANGLE News

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

SingleStore logo

Database for your real-time AI and Analytics Apps.
Try it today.

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Present your product here