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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Kingbase vs. ObjectBox vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.kinetica.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

docs.objectbox.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Kinetica

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

1999

2017

2013

Current release

7.1, August 2021

V8.0, August 2021

4.0 (May 2024)

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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