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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. NSDb vs. Pinecone vs. StarRocks vs. TimesTen

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA managed, cloud-native vector databaseAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comnsdb.iowww.pinecone.iowww.starrocks.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperKineticaPinecone Systems, IncThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20122017201920201998
Current release7.1, August 20212.5.3, March 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++Java, ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
hostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
MySQL protocol
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
PythonJavaC
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsPL/SQL
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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