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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Geode vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SpaceTime

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsWidely used in-process key-value storeSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.comgeode.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.KineticaOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleMireo
Initial release20172002201219942020
Current releaseNov 20, November 20211.1, February 20177.1, August 202118.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaC, C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Data schemeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica 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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoyes

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