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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. JSqlDb vs. PostgreSQL vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	636.25
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.postgresql.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.postgresql.org/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

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

Konrad von Backstrom

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

STS Soft SC

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2002

2018

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2011

2018

Current release

1.1, February 2017

0.8, December 2018

16.3, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

none

Journaling Streams

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

using RocksDB

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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