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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Kinetica vs. QuestDB vs. SpaceTime vs. TerminusDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 CPUsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comquestdb.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetimeterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comquestdb.io/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.KineticaQuestDB Technology IncMireoDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20022012201420202018
Current release1.1, February 20177.1, August 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL with time-series extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
C++
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Fixed-grid hypercubesGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Journaling Streams
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 integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenoACID for single-table writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyesRole-based access control
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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