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DBMS > Geode vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesCloud-based data warehousing serviceEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.99
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.34
Rank#166  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score4.00
Rank#84  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score123.20
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#228  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouserocksdb.orgwww.snowflake.comsqream.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.IBMFacebook, Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release20022014201320142017
Current release1.1, February 20178.11.4, April 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Java API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPL/SQL, SQL PLnouser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningyeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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