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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.snowflake.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Kinetica

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2015

2014

2011

Current release

7.1, August 2021

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Based on Windows Authentication

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