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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Geode vs. Hazelcast vs. NuoDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

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

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

geode.apache.org

hazelcast.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

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

Hazelcast

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2013

2002

2008

2013

2010

Current release

1.1, February 2017

5.3.6, November 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data 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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Java, SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

yes, on a single node

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Role-based access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

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