DBMS > Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. searchxml vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. searchxml vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Kinetica

Microsoft

informationpartners gmbh

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2014

2010

2015

2010

Current release

7.1, August 2021

V12

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

Transact SQL

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

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

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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