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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.kinetica.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.kinetica.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Mobiland AG

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Kinetica

SiteWhere

Initial release

2018

2010

2012

2010

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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