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DBMS > Kinetica vs. NSDb vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. NSDb vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak KV

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.kinetica.comnsdb.iogithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.objectbox.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperKineticaObjectBox LimitedOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2012201720172009
Current release7.1, August 20214.0 (May 2024)3.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++Java, ScalaC and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes, plus "flex" map-like typesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoErlang
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyesyes, using Riak Security
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