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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperExasolKineticaSiteWhereSimer Plaha
Initial release20002012201420102018
Current release7.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaScriptJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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