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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Geode vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

geode.apache.org/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Esgyn

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

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2015

2002

2013

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

simple password-based access control

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