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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. MaxDB vs. PouchDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Vertica

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmaxdb.sap.compouchdb.comwww.sequoiadb.comwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iomaxdb.sap.com/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guideswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Apache Software FoundationSequoiadb Ltd.OpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20131984201220132005
Current release1.2.2, November 20187.9.10.12, February 20247.1.1, June 201912.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query languageFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptJavaScriptyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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KairosDBMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DPouchDBSequoiadbVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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