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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. Sphinx

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.openpie.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.PerconaOpenPieSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release200220152001
Current release1.1, February 20173.4.10-2.10, November 20172.1, January 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoGPL Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)noyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and rolesUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
GeodePercona Server for MongoDBPieCloudDBSphinx
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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