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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. Kdb vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

High performance Time Series DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.60
Rank	#232	Overall
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	6.58
Rank	#54	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#314	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

kx.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

code.kx.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2019

Current release

3.6, May 2018

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

rights management via user accounts

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