DBMS > Geode vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Splice Machine vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Splice Machine vs. YugabyteDB

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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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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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	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

splicemachine.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

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

Microsoft

Splice Machine

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2002

2013

2014

2017

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2.7.6, April 2024

3.1, March 2021

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

JSON types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

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#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

Java

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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