DBMS > Geode vs. Hypertable vs. RavenDB vs. Riak TS vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Hypertable vs. RavenDB vs. Riak TS vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be 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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

ravendb.net

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

ravendb.net/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

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

Hypertable Inc.

Hibernating Rhinos

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

TempoIQ

Initial release

2002

2009

2010

2015

2012

Current release

1.1, February 2017

0.9.8.11, March 2016

5.4, July 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

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

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

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
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

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

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

simple authentication-based access control

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