DBMS > atoti vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TimesTen

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	2.89
Rank	#103	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

geode.apache.org

cloud.google.com/spanner

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

geode.apache.org/docs

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

ActiveViam

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

Google

Oracle

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2002

2017

2011

1998

Current release

1.1, February 2017

23.3, December 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

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)

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

FRTB product of the year: ActiveViam
28 November 2023, Risk.net

provided by Google News

This is how much one of the most expensive gems costs at the Tucson gem show
11 February 2024, KGUN 9 Tucson News

Victor I. Cazares Wants NYTW to Call for Ceasefire in Gaza
22 February 2024, Vulture

Reactive Event Processing with Apache Geode
5 July 2020, InfoQ.com

1. Introduction to Pivotal GemFire In-Memory Data Grid and Apache Geode - Scaling Data Services with Pivotal ...
15 November 2018, O'Reilly Media

Event-Driven Architectures with Apache Geode and Spring Integration
20 March 2019, InfoQ.com

provided by Google News

Google Improves Cloud Spanner: More Compute and Storage without Price Increase
14 October 2023, InfoQ.com

Google makes its Cloud Spanner database service faster and more cost-efficient
11 October 2023, SiliconANGLE News

Google turns up the heat on AWS, claims Cloud Spanner is half the cost of DynamoDB
11 October 2023, TechCrunch

Google Cloud just fired a major volley at AWS as the cloud wars heat up
12 October 2023, TechRadar

Google Spanner: When Do You Need to Move to It?
11 September 2023, hackernoon.com

provided by Google News

OpenWorld 2013: Oracle NoSQL Database On the Rise?
13 December 2023, Channel Futures

Blog Theme - Details
21 August 2023, Oracle

Oracle Defends Relational DBs Against NoSQL Competitors
25 November 2015, eWeek

Oracle Adds New AI-Enabling Features To MySQL HeatWave
23 March 2023, Forbes

Cloud database comparison: AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle
23 August 2022, TechTarget

provided by Google News

Share this page