DBMS > Geode vs. Hazelcast vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Hazelcast vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

geode.apache.org

hazelcast.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

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

Hazelcast

SAP

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2002

2008

2010

2020

Current release

1.1, February 2017

5.3.6, November 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Replicated Map

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

Role-based access control

yes

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