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DBMS > Geode vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. MonetDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. MonetDB vs. RDF4J

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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 HadoopA relational database management system that stores data in columnsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.h2database.comwww.monetdb.orgrdf4j.org
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationrdf4j.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.MonetDB BVSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20022005200920042004
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 availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++CJava
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
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnoyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding via remote tablesnone
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 levelnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDnoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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