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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQLite

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comwww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikilearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperKineticaDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2012200320152000
Current release7.1, August 20211.6.27, May 2024V13.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++CC
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
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 configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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