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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Geode vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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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	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.teradata.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

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

Facebook, Inc.

Teradata

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2002

2013

1984

2018

Current release

1.1, February 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

hosted
Linux

Linux

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

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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