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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Splice Machine vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.45
Rank	#254	Overall
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#242	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#321	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

www.kinetica.com

splicemachine.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Kinetica

Splice Machine

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2014

2019

Current release

7.1, August 2021

3.1, March 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java

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

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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