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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Newts vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#205  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comopennms.github.io/­newtspostgis.netquasar.aiwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
DeveloperKineticaOpenNMS GroupquasardbTencent
Initial release20122014200520092013
Current release7.1, August 20213.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
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 infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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