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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. Geode vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

In-memory caching system

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Document store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

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

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

bigobject.io

cachelot.io

geode.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

geode.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

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

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2015

2002

2010

Current release

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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