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DBMS > Geode vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Websitegeode.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.MicrosoftSequoiadb Ltd.STS Soft SC
Initial release2002201020132011
Current release1.1, February 2017V124.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinuxWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsTransact SQLJavaScriptno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlno

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