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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. mSQL vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

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

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2002

2010

1994

2009

Current release

1.1, February 2017

V12

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

none

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

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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