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DBMS > Geode vs. GigaSpaces vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. GigaSpaces vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 TransactionsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA multi-model DBMS and application serverEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score0.91
Rank#197  Overall
#33  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacherocksdb.org
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Gigaspaces TechnologiesSpotifyInterSystemsFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20022000201419972013
Current release1.1, February 201715.5, September 20202018.1.4, May 20209.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 metadatanoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnoyesno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes, event driven architecturenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDnoACIDyes
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.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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