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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Kdb vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

High performance Time Series DBMS

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.23
Rank	#82	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.70
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#283	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

code.kx.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Community supported by Red Hat

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

LeanXcale

Initial release

2018

2014

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2015

2014

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

HTTP REST

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

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

C
Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

rights management via user accounts

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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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