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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. GridDB vs. Prometheus vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.griddb.net

prometheus.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

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

Toshiba Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2002

2013

2015

2013

Current release

1.1, February 2017

5.1, August 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID at container level

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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 can be defined per database

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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