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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Geode vs. NuoDB vs. SingleStore

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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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

geode.apache.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

doc.nuodb.com

docs.singlestore.com

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.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2004

2002

2013

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.1, February 2017

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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)

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights per client and object definable

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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