DBMS > Kinetica vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

pouchdb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Kinetica

Percona

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2015

2012

2014

Current release

7.1, August 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

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

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

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

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

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

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
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights for users and roles

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

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