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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. MySQL vs. PieCloudDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Widely used open source RDBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented 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	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Kinetica

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OpenPie

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

1995

2011

Current release

7.1, August 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

2.1, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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