DBMS > Geode vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenQM vs. SAP HANA vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenQM vs. SAP HANA vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Primary database model

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	Object oriented DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

typedb.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

help.sap.com/hana

typedb.com/docs

Developer

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

Microsoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SAP

Vaticle

Initial release

2002

1989

1993

2010

2016

Current release

1.1, February 2017

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.4-12

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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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

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Synchronous replication via raft

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

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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