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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Kinetica

Microsoft

Transaction Software GmbH

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2016

1987

2011

Current release

7.1, August 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

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

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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