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DBMS > Geode vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Apache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2002201420142011
Current release1.1, February 20173.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++, JavaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyes infoCache Event ListenersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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