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DBMS > EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. Kdb vs. RDF4J vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. Kdb vs. RDF4J vs. WakandaDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityHigh performance Time Series DBMSRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
RDF storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/kx.comrdf4j.orgwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedcode.kx.comrdf4j.org/­documentationwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperExasolCirconus LLC.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Wakanda SAS
Initial release200020172000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320042012
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.6, May 20182.7.0 (AprilĀ 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++qJavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language (q)nono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, in Luauser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersyesnoyes infowith viewsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnorights management via user accountsnoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
EXASOLIRONdbKdbRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameWakandaDB
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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