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DBMS > Databend vs. Heroic vs. Kdb vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Heroic vs. Kdb vs. SWC-DB

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NameDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchHigh performance Time Series DBMSA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.30
Rank#287  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
github.com/­spotify/­heroickx.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.databend.comspotify.github.io/­heroiccode.kx.com
DeveloperDatabend LabsSpotifyKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcAlex Kashirin
Initial release202120142000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032020
Current release1.0.59, April 20233.6, May 20180.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageRustJavaqC++
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesrights management via user accounts
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DatabendHeroicKdbSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
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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