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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kinetica vs. SiteWhere vs. SpaceTime

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.kinetica.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.InterSystemsKineticaSiteWhereMireo
Initial release20022018201220102020
Current release1.1, February 20172023.3, June 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBaseFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableyesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes
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