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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Hazelcast vs. Kinetica vs. SQLite vs. TimesTen

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

geospock.com

hazelcast.com

www.kinetica.com

www.sqlite.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.kinetica.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

GeoSpock

Hazelcast

Kinetica

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2008

2012

2000

1998

Current release

2.0, September 2019

5.3.6, November 2023

7.1, August 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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