DBMS > KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. Riak TS vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. Riak TS vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.kinetica.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

docs.kinetica.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Kinetica

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2013

2012

2015

2001

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

7.1, August 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, limited

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

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

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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