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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Immudb vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.snowflake.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.immudb.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

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

Codenotary

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2002

2020

2014

2017

Current release

1.1, February 2017

1.2.3, April 2022

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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)

SQL-like syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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