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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. GridGain vs. STSdb vs. VelocityDB

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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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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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	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.gridgain.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

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

GridGain Systems, Inc.

STS Soft SC

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2002

2007

2011

Current release

1.1, February 2017

GridGain 8.5.1

4.0.8, September 2015

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

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

.NET Client API

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java

.Net

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)

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes (replicated cache)

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

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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