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DBMS > Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Teradata Aster

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOracles in-memory data grid solutionPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperKineticaOracleTeradata
Initial release2012201420072005
Current release7.1, August 202114.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnoR packages
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes, with selectable consistency levelyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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