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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerarkDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name	Kinetica  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	TerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
		SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	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	Relational DBMS	Key-value store	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models	Spatial DBMS Time Series DBMS			Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.66 Rank #234   Overall #107   Relational DBMS		Score 0.08 Rank #367   Overall #56   Key-value stores	Score 0.12 Rank #348   Overall #151   Relational DBMS
Website	www.kinetica.com	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentation	docs.kinetica.com		bytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc	docs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
Developer	Kinetica	Sybase, SAP	ByteDance, originally Terark	Transwarp
Initial release	2012	1993	2016
Current release	7.1, August 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial restricted open source version available	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C, C++		C++
Server operating systems	Linux	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	no	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.	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like DML and DDL statements	yes	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	C++ API Java API
Supported programming languages	C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python	Delphi Perl PHP	C++ Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	user defined functions	yes	no
Triggers	yes triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
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	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	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	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	Access rights for users and roles on table level	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no
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	Kinetica	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	TerarkDB	Transwarp ArgoDB
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