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DBMS > Geode vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SpaceTime vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SpaceTime vs. SQream DB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 CPUsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial 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
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.mireo.com/­spacetimesqream.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.KineticaMicrosoftMireoSQream Technologies
Initial release20022012201620202017
Current release1.1, February 20177.1, August 20212022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsTransact SQLnouser defined functions in Python
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, horizontal partitioningFixed-grid hypercubeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyesReal-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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenoACIDnoACID
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 RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyesyes

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