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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. RavenDB vs. SQL.JS vs. StarRocks vs. Transbase

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabasePort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comravendb.netsql.js.orgwww.starrocks.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comravendb.net/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperKineticaHibernating RhinosAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122010201220201987
Current release7.1, August 20215.4, July 20222.5.3, March 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C#JavaScriptC++, JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (RQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIJDBC
MySQL protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAuthorization levels configured per client per databasenoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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