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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Key-value store

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Score	1.66
Rank	#134	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

geode.apache.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

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

Oracle

Initial release

2002

2007

Current release

1.1, February 2017

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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