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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Kinetica vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.kinetica.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

Developer

Kinetica

ObjectBox Limited

SAP

Initial release

2018

2012

2017

2010

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

7.1, August 2021

4.0 (May 2024)

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

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

none

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

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