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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Lovefield vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series 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
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldnsdb.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperKineticaGoogleOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release2012201420171984
Current release7.1, August 20212.1.12, February 20177.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaScriptJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
HP Open VMS
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJava
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime DatabaseUsing Apache Luceneyes
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 infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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