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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. JSqlDb vs. Kdb vs. TempoIQ

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

High performance Time Series DBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

kx.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

code.kx.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Konrad von Backstrom

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2018

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2012

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

0.8, December 2018

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

table attribute 'grouped'

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

JavaScript

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

rights management via user accounts

simple authentication-based access control

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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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

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

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