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DBMS > Geode vs. Heroic vs. PostGIS vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Heroic vs. PostGIS vs. Riak TS

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSpatial extension of PostgreSQLRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.38
Rank#123  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.63
Rank#242  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score24.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#308  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicpostgis.net
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.SpotifyOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2002201420052015
Current release1.1, February 20173.4.2, February 20243.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCErlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)noyesyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsErlang
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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