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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.92
Rank	#231	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#317	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

www.kinetica.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Kinetica

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2011

Current release

7.1, August 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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