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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Geode vs. IRONdb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

geode.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

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.

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2004

2002

2017

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.1, February 2017

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

Access rights per client and object definable

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