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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. SQLite vs. TDengine vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

www.sqlite.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.tdengine.com

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Kinetica

Dwayne Richard Hipp

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

2000

2019

2003

Current release

7.1, August 2021

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

3.0, August 2022

7, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

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

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

via file-system locks

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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Specific characteristics

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Market metrics

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