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DBMS > KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. QuestDB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. QuestDB vs. SAP IQ

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.56
Rank#106  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.kinetica.comquestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iodocs.kinetica.comquestdb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperKineticaQuestDB Technology IncSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release2013201220141994
Current release1.2.2, November 20187.1, August 202116.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integration
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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