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DBMS > Geode vs. GridGain vs. Kinetica vs. SpaceTime vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. GridGain vs. Kinetica vs. SpaceTime vs. XTDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value storeColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.kinetica.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.kinetica.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GridGain Systems, Inc.KineticaMireoJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20022007201220202019
Current release1.1, February 2017GridGain 8.5.17.1, August 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial, open sourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLC, C++C++Clojure
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsnono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
Access rights for users and roles on table levelyes

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