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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Geode vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. TimesTen

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

geode.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

geode.apache.org/docs

origodb.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

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

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2015

2002

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

1998

Current release

1.1, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (OQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

depending on model

yes

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

Write ahead log

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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