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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. NSDb vs. Speedb vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.69
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#318	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

nsdb.io

www.speedb.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Kinetica

Speedb

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2017

2020

1998

Current release

7.1, August 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Licensing and pricing models

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