DBMS > Geode vs. Kingbase vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Kingbase vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

geode.apache.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

memgraph.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Social network pages

Developer

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

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Initial release

2002

1999

2017

2014

2012

Current release

1.1, February 2017

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

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

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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