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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. MySQL vs. Typesense

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Widely used open source RDBMS

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.88
Rank	#238	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	1111.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#256	Overall
	#15	Search engines

Website

www.kinetica.com

www.mysql.com

typesense.org

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Kinetica

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2012

1995

2015

Current release

7.1, August 2021

8.1.0, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

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

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

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

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