DBMS > Geode vs. Kinetica vs. PostGIS vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Kinetica vs. PostGIS vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.kinetica.com

postgis.net

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.kinetica.com

postgis.net/documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Kinetica

Mireo

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2002

2012

2005

2020

1987

Current release

1.1, February 2017

7.1, August 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes, on a single node

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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