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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

geode.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

rockset.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.rockset.com

Developer

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

IBM

Rockset

Initial release

2002

2017

2019

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Active-active shard replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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