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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.hawkular.org

google.github.io/lovefield

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

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

origodb.com/docs

Developer

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

Community supported by Red Hat

Google

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2002

2014

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2.1.12, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Using read-only observers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Role based authorization

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