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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Kdb vs. Splunk vs. TimesTen vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

High performance Time Series DBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

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

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

kx.com

www.splunk.com

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

code.kx.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Splunk Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2003

1998

1987

Current release

3.6, May 2018

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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 query language (q)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

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

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

yes

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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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