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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. GigaSpaces vs. GridGain vs. SpaceTime vs. STSdb

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.gigaspaces.comwww.gridgain.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Gigaspaces TechnologiesGridGain Systems, Inc.MireoSTS Soft SC
Initial release20022000200720202011
Current release1.1, February 201715.5, September 2020GridGain 8.5.14.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetJava, C++, .NetC++C#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-99 for query and DML statementsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes, event driven architectureyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes (replicated cache)Real-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableRole-based access controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyesno

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