DBMS > EsgynDB vs. gStore vs. Kdb vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. gStore vs. Kdb vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

High performance Time Series DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	7.73
Rank	#45	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

en.gstore.cn

kx.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

code.kx.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Esgyn

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2015

2016

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2014

1995

Current release

1.2, November 2023

3.6, May 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

with views

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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