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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. HugeGraph vs. MaxDB vs. Postgres-XL

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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 fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

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

Baidu

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2002

2018

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

1.1, February 2017

0.9

7.9.10.12, February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud 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

Linux
macOS
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

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

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

MVCC

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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