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DBMS > Geode vs. HyperSQL vs. SwayDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. HyperSQL vs. SwayDB vs. ToroDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitegeode.apache.orghsqldb.orgswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Simer Plaha8Kdata
Initial release2002200120182016
Current release1.1, February 20172.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScalaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava, SQLno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles

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