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DBMS > Geode vs. HBase vs. Riak KV vs. Riak TS vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. HBase vs. Riak KV vs. Riak TS vs. STSdb

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitegeode.apache.orghbase.apache.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.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.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SC
Initial release20022008200920152011
Current release1.1, February 20172.3.4, January 20213.2.0, December 20223.0.0, September 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangErlangC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnonoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesnonorestrictedrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)nonoyes, limitedno
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C 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
C 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
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in JavaErlangErlangno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedno infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes, using Riak Securitynono

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