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DBMS > Geode vs. Kinetica vs. SpatiaLite vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Kinetica vs. SpatiaLite vs. Tarantool

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  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 CPUsSpatial extension of SQLiteIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#139  Overall
#25  Document stores
#24  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.KineticaAlessandro FurieriVK
Initial release2002201220082008
Current release1.1, February 20177.1, August 20215.0.0, August 20202.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxserver-lessBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenoACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, write ahead 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 RAMyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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