DBMS > Kinetica vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Widely used open source RDBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Time Series 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	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

www.mysql.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Kinetica

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Percona

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

1995

2015

Current release

7.1, August 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

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

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

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