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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Ingres vs. jBASE vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

geode.apache.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

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

Actian Corporation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2002

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1991

2015

Current release

1.1, February 2017

12.0, July 2024

5.7

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Ingres Replicator

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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