DBMS > Geode vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

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

Google

Hughes Technologies

quasardb

Initial release

2002

2014

1994

2009

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2.1.12, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

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)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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