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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. mSQL vs. Oracle NoSQL

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  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 TransactionsHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.gigaspaces.comwww.hawkular.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosql
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.html
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Gigaspaces TechnologiesCommunity supported by Red HatHughes TechnologiesOracle
Initial release20022000201419942011
Current release1.1, February 201715.5, September 20204.4, October 202123.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetJavaCJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptional
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 metadatanonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnonono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes, event driven architectureyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDnonoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
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.yesyesnonoyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableRole-based access controlnonoAccess rights for users and roles

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