DBMS > Kinetica vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.kinetica.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Kinetica

Microsoft

Percona

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

1989

2008

2016

Current release

7.1, August 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

none

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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