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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Riak KV vs. TerarkDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

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

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Kinetica

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

ByteDance, originally Terark

Transwarp

Initial release

2012

2009

2016

Current release

7.1, August 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

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

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

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

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes, using Riak Security

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