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DBMS > FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. RethinkDB

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A multi-model DBMS and application serverFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.kinetica.comrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.comdocs.kinetica.comrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFatCloudCCRi and othersInterSystemsKineticaThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20122014199720122009
Current release5.0.0, May 20242018.1.4, May 20207.1, August 20212.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#ScalaC, C++C++
Server operating systemsWindowsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#C#
C++
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersyes infovia applicationsnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layernoneShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factordepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousers and table-level permissions

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