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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Kinetica vs. OpenQM vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.kinetica.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.kinetica.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Actian Corporation

Kinetica

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Alessandro Furieri

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2012

1993

2008

2016

Current release

11.2, May 2022

7.1, August 2021

3.4-12

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

schema-free

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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