DBMS > Geode vs. Hypertable vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Hypertable vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

geode.apache.org

www.postgres-xl.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

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

Hypertable Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2002

2009

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

Current release

1.1, February 2017

0.9.8.11, March 2016

10 R1, October 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

BSD

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
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

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

C++ API
Thrift

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

MVCC

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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