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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Kinetica vs. Lovefield vs. TerarkDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Kinetica vs. Lovefield vs. TerarkDB vs. Trafodion

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegeospock.comwww.kinetica.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKctrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperGeoSpockKineticaGoogleByteDance, originally TerarkApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2012201420162014
Current release2.0, September 20197.1, August 20212.1.12, February 20172.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC, C++JavaScriptC++C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-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.nonononono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infousing MemoryDByesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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