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DBMS > Geode vs. Machbase Neo vs. Riak KV vs. ScyllaDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Machbase Neo vs. Riak KV vs. ScyllaDB vs. Trafodion

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitegeode.apache.orgmachbase.comwww.scylladb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsmachbase.com/­dbmswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.scylladb.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.MachbaseOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesScyllaDBApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20022013200920152014
Current release1.1, February 2017V8.0, August 20233.2.0, December 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCErlangC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesrestrictedyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoErlangyes, LuaJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenonono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes infoin-memory tablesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definablesimple password-based access controlyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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