DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. Solr vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. Solr 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

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

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

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

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

Website

geospock.com

www.kinetica.com

www.snowflake.com

solr.apache.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

GeoSpock

Kinetica

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2014

2006

2016

Current release

2.0, September 2019

7.1, August 2021

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

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++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

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

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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

yes

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