DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Kinetica vs. Machbase Neo vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Kinetica vs. Machbase Neo vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

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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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

geospock.com

www.kinetica.com

machbase.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

machbase.com/dbms

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

GeoSpock

Kinetica

Machbase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2016

Current release

2.0, September 2019

7.1, August 2021

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

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

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users and roles on table level

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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