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

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

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 KVScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicpostgis.netvitess.io
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.SpotifyOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20022014200520152013
Current release1.1, February 20173.4.2, February 20243.0.0, September 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCErlangGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 Elasticsearchyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)noyesyes, limitedyes infowith proprietary extensions
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsErlangyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenoACIDnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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