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DBMS > Citus vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. jBASE vs. Kdb

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. jBASE vs. Kdb

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasekx.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9code.kx.com
DeveloperHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release20101974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19912000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release8.1, December 201811.2, May 20225.73.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCGoCq
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesoptionalyes
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyesyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsIngres ReplicatoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardtoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelrights management via user accounts
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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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