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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. H2 vs. PouchDB vs. Riak TS

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
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.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.h2database.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlpouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Thomas MuellerApache Software FoundationOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2002200520122015
Current release1.1, February 20172.2.220, July 20237.1.1, June 20193.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yesnoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaJavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
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 databaseMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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