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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Geode vs. GigaSpaces vs. RocksDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

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

Gigaspaces Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2004

2002

2000

2013

2000

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.1, February 2017

15.5, September 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

Access rights per client and object definable

Role-based access control

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