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DBMS > HarperDB vs. Kinetica vs. Kingbase vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Kinetica vs. Kingbase vs. XTDB

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NameHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.55
Rank#243  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#258  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websitewww.harperdb.iowww.kinetica.comwww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.kinetica.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperHarperDBKineticaBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release2017201219992019
Current release3.1, August 20217.1, August 2021V8.0, August 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageNode.jsC, C++C and JavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemedynamic schemayesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoJSON data typesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard with numerous extensionslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresCustom Functions infosince release 3.1user defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedSource-replica replicationyesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using LMDByesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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