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DBMS > KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. MaxDB vs. Raima Database Manager vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. MaxDB vs. Raima Database Manager vs. RDF4J

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#115  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#268  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.kinetica.commaxdb.sap.comraima.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iodocs.kinetica.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.raima.comrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperKineticaSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Raima Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20132012198419842004
Current release1.2.2, November 20187.1, August 20217.9.10.12, February 202415, June 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++CJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationyes
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono
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KairosDBKineticaMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
Specific characteristicsRaima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Competitive advantagesDecreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Typical application scenariosTypical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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Key customersInfor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Market metricsOver 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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Licensing and pricing modelsJust as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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