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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. searchxml vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Kinetica

informationpartners gmbh

SiteWhere

STS Soft SC

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2015

2010

2011

2012

Current release

7.1, August 2021

1.0

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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