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DBMS > Geode vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime vs. TerarkDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.KineticaMicrosoftMireoByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20022012201520202016
Current release1.1, February 20177.1, August 2021V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnonono
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 nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenononono
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.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing Azure authenticationyesno

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