DBMS > Geode vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA vs. SingleStore vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA vs. SingleStore vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
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Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

geode.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.singlestore.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

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

help.sap.com/hana

docs.singlestore.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

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

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

SingleStore Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2002

2015

2010

2013

2019

Current release

1.1, February 2017

3.0.0, September 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

8.5, January 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++, Go

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

64 bit version required

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes, limited

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

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

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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