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DBMS > Ingres vs. Kinetica vs. PlanetScale vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Kinetica vs. PlanetScale vs. Quasardb

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.kinetica.complanetscale.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.kinetica.complanetscale.com/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperActian CorporationKineticaPlanetScalequasardb
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201220202009
Current release12.0, July 20247.1, August 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC, C++GoC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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