DBMS > atoti vs. Kinetica vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Kinetica vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

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

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

atoti.io

www.kinetica.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

docs.kinetica.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

ActiveViam

Kinetica

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2015

2014

2016

Current release

7.1, August 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

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

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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, user roles and pluggable authentication

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