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DBMS > Geode vs. GeoMesa vs. Ignite vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. GeoMesa vs. Ignite vs. Trafodion

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orgignite.apache.orgtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.CCRi and othersApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2002201420152014
Current release1.1, February 20174.0.5, February 2024Apache Ignite 2.62.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++, Java, .NetC++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)noANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layeryes (replicated cache)yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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