DBMS > Geode vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.snowflake.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

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

SAP, Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

2002

1987

2014

2020

Current release

1.1, February 2017

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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