DBMS > Geode vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MarkLogic vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MarkLogic vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake

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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

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

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

www.marklogic.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.heavy.ai

docs.marklogic.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.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.

MarkLogic Corp.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2002

2016

2001

2009

2014

Current release

1.1, February 2017

5.10, January 2022

11.0, December 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Erlang

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

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

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

yes, using Riak Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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