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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Tkrzw vs. ToroDB

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Name

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

geode.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

dbmx.net/tkrzw

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

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

Microsoft

Mikio Hirabayashi

8Kdata

Initial release

2002

2014

2020

2016

Current release

1.1, February 2017

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

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

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate 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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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