DBMS > atoti vs. Kinetica vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Kinetica vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

docs.kinetica.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

ActiveViam

Kinetica

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2009

2014

Current release

7.1, August 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Erlang

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

user defined functions

Erlang

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

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

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes, using Riak Security

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

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