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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. DataFS vs. Kdb vs. LMDB vs. MaxDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

High performance Time Series DBMS

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

newdatabase.com

kx.com

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

code.kx.com

www.lmdb.tech/doc

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Mobiland AG

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Symas

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2012

2018

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2011

1984

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

3.6, May 2018

0.9.32, January 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

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

Windows-Profile

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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