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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Riak KV vs. Sequoiadb vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

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

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Teradata

Initial release

2002

2009

2013

2005

Current release

1.1, February 2017

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

JavaScript

R packages

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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, using Riak Security

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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