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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Kinetica vs. Quasardb

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.kinetica.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.kinetica.comdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Kineticaquasardb
Initial release201520122009
Current release7.1, August 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
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 infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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