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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	1.53
Rank	#155	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

geode.apache.org

www.gridgain.com

www.hawkular.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

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

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2002

2007

2014

2011

Current release

1.1, February 2017

GridGain 8.5.1

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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