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DBMS > Geode vs. Kinetica vs. RDFox vs. TerarkDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Kinetica vs. RDFox vs. TerarkDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 CPUsHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.99
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#309  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#347  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comdocs.oxfordsemantic.techbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.KineticaOxford Semantic TechnologiesByteDance, originally TerarkVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20022012201720162011
Current release1.1, February 20177.1, August 20216.0, Septermber 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++C++C#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
C++ API
Java API
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
C++
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationreplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenoACIDnoACID
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 RAMyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRoles, resources, and access typesnoBased on Windows Authentication

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