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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Geode vs. H2 vs. Hazelcast

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A widely adopted in-memory data grid
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iogeode.apache.orgwww.h2database.comhazelcast.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogeode.apache.org/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Thomas MuellerHazelcast
Initial release2015200220052008
Current release1.1, February 20172.2.220, July 20235.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (OQL)yesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Java.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Services
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infoEvents
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoReplicated Map
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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