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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kdb vs. Machbase Neo vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

High performance Time Series DBMS

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

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

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

kx.com

machbase.com

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

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

code.kx.com

machbase.com/dbms

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Axibase Corporation

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Machbase

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2013

2010

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2013

1998

Current release

15585

3.6, May 2018

V8.0, August 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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 query language

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
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

Eventual Consistency

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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