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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NSDb vs. Quasardb

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesnsdb.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comnsdb.io/­Architecturedoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperKineticaMicrosoftquasardb
Initial release2012201220172009
Current release7.1, August 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes infointeger and binary
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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