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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Kdb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TimesTen vs. Vertica

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)High performance Time Series DBMSA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.30
Rank#294  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score7.70
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.96
Rank#103  Overall
#18  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#52  Relational DBMS
Score1.35
Rank#165  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score11.40
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbkx.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdcode.kx.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1vertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperSoftmotionsKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOracleOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005OpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20122000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201119982005
Current release3.6, May 201823.3, December 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)12.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageCqJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesoptionalyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoPL/SQLyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsnonoyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingnonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingwith Hadoop integrationnono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infooff heap cacheyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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EJDBKdbOracle NoSQLTimesTenVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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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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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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