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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Kdb vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#204	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	6.58
Rank	#54	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#170	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

kx.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

code.kx.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1999

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1998

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.6, May 2018

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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