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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Rockset vs. searchxml vs. SQL.JS

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA 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 scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­spannerrockset.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssql.js.org
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.rockset.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GoogleRocksetinformationpartners gmbhAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20022017201920152012
Current release1.1, February 20171.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedhostedWindowsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyesyes
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011Read-only SQL queries, including JOINsnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACID infoStrict serializable isolationnomultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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