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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

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

Microsoft

STS Soft SC

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2002

2016

2011

2012

Current release

1.1, February 2017

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
PHP

C#
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

yes

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