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DBMS > Geode vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB vs. SpaceTime

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  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 CPUsWidely used in-process key-value storeEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Key-value storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#130  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlrocksdb.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.KineticaOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleFacebook, Inc.Mireo
Initial release20022012199420132020
Current release1.1, February 20177.1, August 202118.1.40, May 20209.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
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 rangeyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioningFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyesReal-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 Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenoACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 RAMyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnonoyes

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