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DBMS > Geode vs. Kinetica vs. SpaceTime vs. Stardog vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Kinetica vs. SpaceTime vs. Stardog vs. TerarkDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 CPUsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
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
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score2.05
Rank#129  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.stardog.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comdocs.stardog.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.KineticaMireoStardog-UnionByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20022012202020102016
Current release1.1, February 20177.1, August 20217.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javano
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replication in HA-Clusternone
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 in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 RAMnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyesAccess rights for users and rolesno

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