DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Kdb vs. Netezza vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Kdb vs. Netezza vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

kx.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Esgyn

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

IBM

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2000

Current release

3.6, May 2018

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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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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Licensing and pricing models

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