DBMS > Kinetica vs. OpenTSDB vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. OpenTSDB vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

postgis.net/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Kinetica

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2011

2005

2014

Current release

7.1, August 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

based on HBase

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

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