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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Quasardb vs. YottaDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA fast and solid embedded Key-value storeHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo pluginDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comquasar.aiyottadb.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comdoc.quasar.ai/­masteryottadb.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperKineticaquasardbYottaDB, LLCYugabyte Inc.
Initial release2012200920012017
Current release7.1, August 20213.14.1, January 20242.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++CC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binarynoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageby using the Octo pluginyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
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 hashingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryesBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
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 ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDoptimistic lockingDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infobased on RocksDB
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 modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanismsyes
More information provided by the system vendor
KineticaQuasardbYottaDBYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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