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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB

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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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

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

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2002

2013

2010

2015

Current release

1.1, February 2017

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

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