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DBMS > DuckDB vs. KairosDB vs. Kdb vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. KairosDB vs. Kdb vs. Manticore Search

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2High performance Time Series DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websiteduckdb.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbkx.commanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docskairosdb.github.iocode.kx.commanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcManticore Software
Initial release201820132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032017
Current release0.10, February 20241.2.2, November 20183.6, May 20186.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaqC++
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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.nonoyesCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera library
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 infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlrights management via user accountsno
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DuckDBKairosDBKdbManticore Search
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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