DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Kdb vs. Linter vs. MySQL vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Kdb vs. Linter vs. MySQL vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

High performance Time Series DBMS

RDBMS for high security requirements

Widely used open source RDBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

code.kx.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

relex.ru

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2013

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1990

1995

2019

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.6, May 2018

8.4.0, April 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

with proprietary extensions

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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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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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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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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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing models

upon request
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