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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Geode vs. Interbase vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

geode.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Rackspace

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

Embarcadero

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2013

2002

1984

1998

Current release

1.1, February 2017

InterBase 2020, December 2019

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

Interbase Change Views

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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