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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Geode vs. NSDb vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

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

Simer Plaha

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

2002

2017

2018

1987

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

1.1, February 2017

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

Java, Scala

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

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

Java
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Atomic execution of operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Role-based access control

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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