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

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
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Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

postgis.net

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

postgis.net/documentation

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

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

Spotify

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2002

2014

2005

2010

Current release

1.1, February 2017

3.4.2, February 2024

11.3, April 2022

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

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X

for development

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes, on a single node

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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