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DBMS > Kinetica vs. LMDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. LMDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database librarySpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbspark.apache.org/­sqlsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comwww.lmdb.tech/­docspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperKineticaSymasApache Software FoundationSplice Machine
Initial release2012201120142014
Current release7.1, August 20210.9.32, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++CScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
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
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes infoJava
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark CoreShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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