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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. HarperDB vs. QuestDB vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
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.A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.harperdb.ioquestdb.iosphinxsearch.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.harperdb.io/­docsquestdb.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.HarperDBQuestDB Technology IncSphinx Technologies Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20022017201420012012
Current release1.1, February 20173.1, August 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocolJavaScript API
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
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nonono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeAtomic execution of specific operationsACID for single-table writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and rolesnono
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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