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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Snowflake vs. Yaacomo

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.82
Rank#235  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score121.00
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.snowflake.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperSnowflake Computing Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release201320142009
Current release1.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions
Triggersnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrayeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesSource-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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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