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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. H2 vs. HarperDB vs. NCache

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

geode.apache.org

www.h2database.com

www.harperdb.io

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

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

Thomas Mueller

HarperDB

Alachisoft

Initial release

2002

2005

2017

2005

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2.2.220, July 2023

3.1, August 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

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