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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kdb vs. TypeDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphCloud-based data warehousing serviceA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityHigh performance Time Series DBMSTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.15
Rank#334  Overall
#45  Document stores
#31  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.34
Rank#166  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score4.39
Rank#81  Overall
#13  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#44  Relational DBMS
Score7.70
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#99  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriskx.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clscode.kx.comtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBIBMInterSystemsKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcVaticle
Initial release2012201420182000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032016
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212023.3, June 20233.6, May 20182.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++qJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesyesno
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesyesSQL-like query language (q)no
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
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 modeyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesrights management via user accountsyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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BangdbIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBInterSystems IRISKdbTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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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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