DBMS > Geode vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#131	Overall
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Score	1.77
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	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

google.github.io/lovefield

quasar.ai

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

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

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Google

quasardb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2002

2016

2014

2009

2000

Current release

1.1, February 2017

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

3.14.1, January 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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