DBMS > Geode vs. H2GIS vs. RocksDB vs. Solr vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. H2GIS vs. RocksDB vs. Solr vs. TinkerGraph

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

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

CNRS

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2002

2013

2006

2009

Current release

1.1, February 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

based on H2

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

yes

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

yes

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