DBMS > Geode vs. MySQL vs. Newts vs. SiteWhere vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. MySQL vs. Newts vs. SiteWhere 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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.mysql.com

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

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

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

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.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OpenNMS Group

SiteWhere

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2002

1995

2014

2010

1998

Current release

1.1, February 2017

8.4.0, April 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes, on a single node

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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