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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. ITTIA vs. Kinetica vs. SpaceTime vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	0.36
Rank	#272	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.ittia.com

www.kinetica.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

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

ITTIA L.L.C.

Kinetica

Mireo

8Kdata

Initial release

2002

2007

2012

2020

2016

Current release

1.1, February 2017

8.7

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C, C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Database file passwords

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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