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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Kdb vs. Raima Database Manager

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

High performance Time Series DBMS

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.49
Rank	#142	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	7.10
Rank	#48	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#289	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

kx.com

raima.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

code.kx.com

docs.raima.com

Developer

Exasol

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Raima Inc.

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1984

Current release

3.6, May 2018

15, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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News

RaimaDB and QNX Forge a Powerful Partnership in Embedded Systems
9 July 2024

Raima Unveils RaimaDB 16.0: Elevating Database Performance and User Experience
29 February 2024

Raima Announces Release of Raima Database Manager (RDM) v15, a Powerful Embedded Time Series Database
10 June 2021

Raima Announces Release of Raima Database Manager (RDM) v14.2, a Powerful IoT Edge Embedded Database
8 October 2020

Raima Joins BlackBerry QNX Channel Partner Program to Deliver Safety-Critical and Secure Software Solutions
1 October 2020

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