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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Newts vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#338	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

opennms.github.io/newts

pouchdb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

pouchdb.com/guides

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Kinetica

OpenNMS Group

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Ultipa

Initial release

2012

2014

2012

2011

2019

Current release

7.1, August 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

JavaScript

C#
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

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

based on Cassandra

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

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