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DBMS > Altibase vs. Geode vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kinetica vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Geode vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kinetica vs. SpaceTime

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgeode.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.kinetica.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgeode.apache.org/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperAltibaseOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.IBMKineticaMireo
Initial release19992002201720122020
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.1, February 20172.07.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++C, C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query language (OQL)yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes

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