Kaminario K2 (discontinued) vs. Raima Database Manager (RDM)

K2 works well in our mixed-use virtual environment. I would not hesitate to place any workload on K2, it has always performed well. We use fiber-channel connectivity as it replaced our large legacy storage array, replacing one rack of spinning disks with 4U of flash.

Incentivized

Works very well in applications designed for IoT devices where performance and footprint are of great importance.

• Great performance
• Great support
• Super-simple to use

Incentivized

• First of all the performance of RDM was superior compared to SQLite in my multi-user environment (about 200 users). The pricing was surprisingly good compared to other high-performance databases.
• Decreased time to market, a faster and more performant application overall and lower maintenance costs.
• They run on most RTOS and can be used in a cross-platform environment.

• Not well known, so third-party support is lacking
• Data reduction is good, but not as good as expected (actual 2.7:1)

Incentivized

• I would like to see REST API with a GUI for administration

We performed a bake-off with K2 and one other vendor and they performed identically. K2 pricing was aggressive, performance was great, and it offered the features that we needed at a price that we could afford

Incentivized

RDM performs way better than SQLite when the database is larger and has multiple users.

• Installing K2 reduced runtime of one of our batch processes, freeing up one employee for other tasks.
• Less time managing storage.

Incentivized

• Decreased time to market
• Decreased maintenance and service costs on hardware.