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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Trafodion vs. XTDB

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.31
Rank	#157	Overall
	#27	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#314	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

geode.apache.org

trafodion.apache.org

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

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

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.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2002

2014

2019

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2.3.0, February 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, via HBase

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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