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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

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

CNRS

Spotify

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2002

2013

2014

1984

1999

Current release

1.1, February 2017

7.4.1.1, 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a 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

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

based on H2

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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