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Name

Description

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

geode.apache.org/docs

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

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

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2016

2002

2012

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

1.1, February 2017

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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 for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Role based authorization

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