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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. MonetDB vs. Trafodion vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

www.monetdb.org

trafodion.apache.org

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Kinetica

MonetDB BV

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2004

2014

2009

Current release

7.1, August 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

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

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

Java Stored Procedures

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

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes, via HBase

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

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