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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

geode.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.kinetica.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.kinetica.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Kinetica

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2002

2010

2012

2021

Current release

1.1, February 2017

7.1, August 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

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

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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