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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.56
Rank	#269	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#252	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

www.kinetica.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.kinetica.com/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Kinetica

Initial release

2008

2012

2014

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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Specific characteristics

Native and fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs, with memory first...
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Competitive advantages

Best in class geospatial and temporal analytics. Lockless architecture provides real-time...
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Typical application scenarios

Any application requiring (1) real time insights, (2) time series analysis (3) geospatial...
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Key customers

Citibank, US Air Force, Softbank, OVO, Telkomsel, USPS, 2 of the top 3 US Telcos,...
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Market metrics

The largest IoT deployment in the world, NORAD, runs on Kinetica.
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Licensing and pricing models

Always Free Tier in the Cloud, Pay-As-You-Go Consumption Based Pricing, and Portable...
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