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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. RisingWave vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.teradata.comterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introdocs.teradata.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperKineticaRisingWave LabsTeradataDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20122022198420182011
Current release7.1, August 20211.2, September 2023Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 201911.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++RustProlog, RustC#
Server operating systemsLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
hosted
Linux
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsUDFs in Python or Javayes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelyesno
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoHashingGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers and Rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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