DBMS > eXtremeDB vs. Kinetica vs. LMDB vs. SQLite vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Kinetica vs. LMDB vs. SQLite vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#120	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.kinetica.com

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

www.sqlite.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.kinetica.com

www.lmdb.tech/doc

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

McObject

Kinetica

Symas

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2001

2012

2011

2000

1998

Current release

8.2, 2021

7.1, August 2021

0.9.32, January 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

server-less

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

by defining events

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

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

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