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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. HarperDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. Yaacomo

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.harperdb.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldyaacomo.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.HarperDBGoogleQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20022017201320142009
Current release1.1, February 20173.1, August 20212.7.6, April 20242.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsGoJavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nono
Triggersyes infoCache Event ListenersnonoUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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