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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Kdb vs. searchxml

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSHigh performance Time Series DBMSDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.05
Rank#91  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score8.28
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#400  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websiteduckdb.orgkx.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docscode.kx.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20182000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032015
Current release0.9, September 20233.6, May 20181.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++qC++
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (q)no
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
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
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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