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DBMS > KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. Spark SQL vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. Spark SQL vs. Teradata

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.kinetica.comspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iodocs.kinetica.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.teradata.com
DeveloperKineticaApache Software FoundationTeradata
Initial release2013201220141984
Current release1.2.2, November 20187.1, August 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 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++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
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 CassandraShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
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 RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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