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

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

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Widely used open source RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A 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 model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

geode.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

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

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2002

2010

1995

2007

2016

Current release

1.1, February 2017

8.4.0, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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