DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. Geode vs. GeoSpock vs. OceanBase

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. Geode vs. GeoSpock vs. OceanBase

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

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

Score	1.57
Rank	#149	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

cassandra.apache.org

geode.apache.org

geospock.com

en.oceanbase.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

geode.apache.org/docs

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

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

GeoSpock

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Initial release

2016

2008

2002

2010

Current release

1703

4.1.3, July 2023

1.1, February 2017

2.0, September 2019

4.3.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

Commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Proprietary protocol

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

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes, on a single node

ACID

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

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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