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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PostGIS vs. SpatiaLite vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Spatial extension of SQLite

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.hawkular.org

postgis.net

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

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

postgis.net/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

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

Alessandro Furieri

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2002

2014

2005

2008

2014

Current release

1.1, February 2017

3.4.2, February 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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