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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Geode vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comgeode.apache.orgrethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.auwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesgeode.apache.org/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperExasolOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer Plaha
Initial release20002002200920182017
Current release1.1, February 20172.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ScalaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (OQL)nonoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event ListenersClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definableyes infousers and table-level permissionsnoRole-based access control

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