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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Memcached vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score16.36
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.kinetica.comwww.memcached.orggithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
rockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiopensearch.org/­docs/­latestdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperKineticaDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalAmazon Web ServicesRockset
Initial release2012200320212019
Current release7.1, August 20211.6.25, March 20242.5.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++CJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesdynamic typing
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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KineticaMemcachedOpenSearchRockset
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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