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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Memcached vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

ToroDB 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 key-value store, originally intended for caching

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

geode.apache.org

www.memcached.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

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

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

TempoIQ

8Kdata

Initial release

2002

2003

2012

2016

Current release

1.1, February 2017

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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 SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

simple authentication-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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