DBMS > Geode vs. GridGain vs. VelocityDB vs. Yanza

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

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

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

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.gridgain.com

velocitydb.com

yanza.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.

VelocityDB Inc

Yanza

Initial release

2002

2007

2011

2015

Current release

1.1, February 2017

GridGain 8.5.1

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial, open source

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Any that supports .NET

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net

any language that supports HTTP calls

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

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

Based on Windows Authentication

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