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

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comwww.marklogic.comrocksdb.orgwww.snowflake.comsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comdocs.marklogic.comgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperKineticaMarkLogic Corp.Facebook, Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release20122001201320142017
Current release7.1, August 202111.0, December 20228.11.4, April 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++C++C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes, 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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL92noyesyes
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
C++ API
Java API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnouser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningyeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 Indexesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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