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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. KairosDB vs. LevelDB vs. LokiJS vs. Lovefield

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesIn-memory JavaScript DBMSEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­google/­leveldbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docskairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GoogleGoogle
Initial release20022013201120142014
Current release1.1, February 20171.2.2, November 20181.23, February 20212.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++JavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)nononoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infoCache Event ListenersnonoyesUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definablesimple password-based access controlnonono

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