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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. SingleStore vs. Tarantool vs. TerminusDB vs. XTDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesMySQL 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 typeIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extensionDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.singlestore.comwww.tarantool.ioterminusdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.singlestore.comwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.SingleStore Inc.VKDataChemist Ltd.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20022013200820182019
Current release1.1, February 20178.5, January 20242.10.0, May 202211.0.0, January 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoC and C++Prolog, RustClojure
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux info64 bit version requiredBSD
Linux
macOS
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yes infobut no triggers and foreign keysFull-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like query language (WOQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Open binary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
JavaScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesLua, C and SQL stored proceduresyesno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infohash partitioningSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Graph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Journaling Streamsyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, cooperative multitaskingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes, write ahead loggingyes infoin-memory journalingyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
Role-based access control
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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