DBMS > Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL vs. Warp 10

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Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Website

www.kinetica.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.snowflake.com

spark.apache.org/sql

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Kinetica

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

SenX

Initial release

2012

2014

2015

Current release

7.1, August 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

JavaScript

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

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

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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