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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IRONdb vs. Kdb vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IRONdb vs. Kdb vs. TempoIQ

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityHigh performance Time Series DBMSScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cncloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/kx.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedcode.kx.com
DeveloperEsgynGoogleCirconus LLC.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcTempoIQ
Initial release2015201520172000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032012
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC and C++q
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language (q)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.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
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnoyes, in Luauser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyes infowith viewsyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)norights management via user accountssimple authentication-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
EsgynDBGoogle Cloud BigtableIRONdbKdbTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB
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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