DBMS > Geode vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

geode.apache.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

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

Tobias Oetiker

SAP

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2002

1999

2010

2018

Current release

1.1, February 2017

1.8.0, 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

HP-UX
Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

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

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

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