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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. LokiJS vs. XTDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza 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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

geode.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

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

Juxt Ltd.

Yanza

Initial release

2002

2014

2019

2015

Current release

1.1, February 2017

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Clojure

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)

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
JDBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

ACID

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, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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