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DBMS > Geode vs. Heroic vs. PostGIS vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Heroic vs. PostGIS vs. Titan

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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 PostgreSQLTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.99
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicpostgis.netgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicpostgis.net/­documentationgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.SpotifyAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2002201420052012
Current release1.1, February 20173.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)noyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
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 PostgreSQLUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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