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DBMS > Kinetica vs. MaxDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiteWhere vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. MaxDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiteWhere vs. SpatiaLite

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.commaxdb.sap.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperKineticaSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997SAP infoformerly SybaseSiteWhereAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20121984199220102008
Current release7.1, August 20217.9.10.12, February 202417, July 20155.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
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 RAMnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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