DBMS > Geode vs. HBase vs. Netezza vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. HBase vs. Netezza vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

Primary database model

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Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

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

Website

geode.apache.org

hbase.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

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

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

IBM

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2002

2008

2000

2013

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2.3.4, January 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

included in appliance

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

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 or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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