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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. InfinityDB vs. Pinecone vs. Teradata Aster vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. InfinityDB vs. Pinecone vs. Teradata Aster vs. TinkerGraph

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA managed, cloud-native vector databasePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitegeospock.comboilerbay.comwww.pinecone.iotinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperGeoSpockBoiler Bay Inc.Pinecone Systems, IncTeradata
Initial release2002201920052009
Current release2.0, September 20194.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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 infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaPythonC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoR packagesno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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