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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SWC-DB vs. Tkrzw vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

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

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Mikio Hirabayashi

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2002

2015

2020

1987

Current release

1.1, February 2017

0.5, April 2021

0.9.3, August 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

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

yes

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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