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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. H2 vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.h2database.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

postgis.net

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

origodb.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

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

Thomas Mueller

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2002

2005

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2.2.220, July 2023

4.4, October 2021

3.4.2, February 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 licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

none

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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