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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. LevelDB vs. MarkLogic vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.marklogic.comwww.snowflake.comsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.marklogic.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperKineticaGoogleMarkLogic Corp.Snowflake Computing Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release20122011200120142017
Current release7.1, August 20211.23, February 202111.0, December 20222022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++C++C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoSQL92yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptuser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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