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DBMS > Geode vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ignite vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ignite vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TerarkDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantignite.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencegithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencebytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationOracleByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20022010201520072016
Current release1.1, February 2017Apache Ignite 2.614.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++, Java, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)noANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)yes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno

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