DBMS > Geode vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

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

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

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

Score	4.13
Rank	#71	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

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

Score	0.04
Rank	#362	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

cloud.google.com/datastore

rdf4j.org

swaydb.simer.au

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

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

Google

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Simer Plaha

Transwarp

Initial release

2002

2008

2004

2018

Current release

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

using Google App Engine

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

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