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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Kinetica vs. Rockset vs. SpaceTime vs. VoltDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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 scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.38
Rank#156  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comrockset.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comdocs.rockset.comdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.KineticaRocksetMireoVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20022012201920202010
Current release1.1, February 20177.1, August 202111.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++C++Java, C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyesyes
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnonoJava
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 nodesShardingShardingAutomatic shardingFixed-grid hypercubesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
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 configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenononoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
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 levelAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleyesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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