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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Riak KV vs. SurrealDB

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Name

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

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

Document store
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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	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

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

surrealdb.com/docs

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

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2002

2009

2022

Current release

1.1, February 2017

3.2.0, December 2022

v1.1.1, January 2024

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

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"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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