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DBMS > Geode vs. Interbase vs. Kinetica vs. Titan vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Interbase vs. Kinetica vs. Titan vs. VelocityDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikivelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.EmbarcaderoKineticaAurelius, owned by DataStaxVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20021984201220122011
Current release1.1, February 2017InterBase 2020, December 20197.1, August 20217.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC, C++JavaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerBased on Windows Authentication

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