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System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#363	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores
	#22	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.kinetica.com

www.snowflake.com

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

docs.immudb.io

kairosdb.github.io

docs.kinetica.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Codenotary

Kinetica

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2020

2013

2012

2014

2022

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes, using FoundationDB

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

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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