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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Bangdb vs. CrateDB vs. Kdb vs. Riak TS

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphDistributed Database based on LuceneHigh performance Time Series DBMSRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#10  Vector DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financebangdb.comcratedb.comkx.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comcratedb.com/­docscode.kx.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperAxibase CorporationSachin Sinha, BangDBCrateKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2013201220132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032015
Current release15585BangDB 2.0, October 20213.6, May 20183.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++JavaqErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'restricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL like support with command line toolyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitySQL-like query language (q)yes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions (Javascript)user defined functionsErlang
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyes infowith viewsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Configurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategynono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)rights management via user accountsrights management via user accountsno
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AxibaseBangdbCrateDBKdbRiak TS
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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