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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. OpenQM vs. Spark SQL vs. Tarantool vs. Transbase

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.tarantool.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Rocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsApache Software FoundationVKTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20021993201420081987
Current release1.1, February 20173.4-123.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.10.0, May 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprisecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Open binary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnoLua, C and SQL stored proceduresyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDnoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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