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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Geode vs. Heroic vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

bigobject.io

geode.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

geode.apache.org/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

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

Spotify

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2002

2014

2019

Current release

1.1, February 2017

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (OQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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