DBMS > Kinetica vs. OpenMLDB vs. OushuDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. OpenMLDB vs. OushuDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#359	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

openmldb.ai

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

www.oushu.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Kinetica

4 Paradigm Inc.

Oushu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2020

2014

Current release

7.1, August 2021

2024-2 February 2024

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

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

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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