DBMS > Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. STSdb vs. TypeDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. STSdb vs. TypeDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

typedb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

typedb.com/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Kinetica

Microsoft

STS Soft SC

Vaticle

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2014

2011

2016

2012

Current release

7.1, August 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

2.26.3, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

.NET Client API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

RESTful HTTP API

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

C#
Java

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

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

by using Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

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

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

yes

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