DBMS > Kinetica vs. Realm vs. Trafodion vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Realm vs. Trafodion vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

realm.io/docs

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Kinetica

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2014

2023

Current release

7.1, August 2021

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes, via HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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