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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

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Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

geode.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

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

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2002

2014

2009

2011

Current release

1.1, February 2017

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

via views

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

yes, using Riak Security

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