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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. HyperSQL vs. Machbase Neo vs. NCache vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

hsqldb.org

machbase.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

machbase.com/dbms

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

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

Machbase

Alachisoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2002

2001

2013

2005

2006

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2.7.2, June 2023

V8.0, August 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Typical application scenarios

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