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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Quasardb vs. SurrealDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comquasar.aisurrealdb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersurrealdb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperKineticaquasardbSurrealDB LtdDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2012200920222018
Current release7.1, August 20213.14.1, January 2024v1.5.0, May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++RustProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
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 persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes 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 RAMyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access control

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