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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP IQ vs. TimesTen

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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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

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

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

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

Microsoft

SAP, formerly Sybase

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2002

1989

1994

1998

Current release

1.1, February 2017

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud 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

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
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

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes

PL/SQL

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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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