DBMS > InfinityDB vs. Kinetica vs. OpenMLDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Kinetica vs. OpenMLDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#359	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.kinetica.com

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Kinetica

4 Paradigm Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2002

2012

2020

2014

Current release

4.0

7.1, August 2021

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Fixed schema

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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