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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP IQ vs. TerminusDB

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comobjectbox.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comdocs.objectbox.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperKineticaObjectBox LimitedSAP, formerly SybaseDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2012201719942018
Current release7.1, August 202116.1 SPS04, April 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesyes
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSAP/Sybase Replication ServerJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control
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