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DBMS > Geode vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Thomas MuellerHypertable Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MonetDB BV
Initial release20022005200920102004
Current release1.1, February 20172.2.220, July 20230.9.8.11, March 2016Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++ErlangC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yesnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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