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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. SAP IQ

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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.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.kinetica.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

kairosdb.github.io

docs.kinetica.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Mobiland AG

Kinetica

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2018

2013

2012

1994

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

7.1, August 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
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

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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