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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. InfluxDB vs. Memgraph vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Widely used in-process key-value store

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

memgraph.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

memgraph.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Social network pages

Developer

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

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

SAP

Initial release

2002

2013

2017

1994

2010

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2.7.6, April 2024

18.1.40, May 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

yes

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

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

simple rights management via user accounts

Users, roles and permissions

yes

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