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DBMS > Geode vs. HarperDB vs. RDF4J vs. Speedb vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. HarperDB vs. RDF4J vs. Speedb vs. SwayDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRDF storeKey-value storeKey-value store
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Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.21
Rank#315  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.harperdb.iordf4j.orgwww.speedb.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.harperdb.io/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.HarperDBSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SpeedbSimer Plaha
Initial release20022017200420202018
Current release1.1, February 20173.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyesnono
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 indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like data manipulation statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
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
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yesnono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednoneyesnone
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 integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedyesAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and rolesnonono
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GeodeHarperDBRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSpeedbSwayDB
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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