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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TimesTen 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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

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

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2002

2016

1998

2012

Current release

1.1, February 2017

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

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

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

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

Linux
OS X
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.

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

PL/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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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