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DBMS > Geode vs. Kinetica vs. Memcached vs. SpaceTime vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Kinetica vs. Memcached vs. SpaceTime vs. Teradata Aster

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.memcached.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.KineticaDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMireoTeradata
Initial release20022012200320202005
Current release1.1, February 20177.1, August 20211.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++CC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnonoR packages
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneFixed-grid hypercubesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityReal-time block device replication (DRBD)yes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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