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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	3.07
Rank	#86	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#11	Key-value stores
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.kinetica.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Kinetica

Oracle

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2011

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2011

Current release

7.1, August 2021

24.1, May 2024

10 R1, October 2018

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
macOS

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

MVCC

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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