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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Kdb vs. OpenTenBase vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

kx.com

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Esgyn

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Initial release

2015

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

3.6, May 2018

2.5, January 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Mozilla public license

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

Linux
macOS

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

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
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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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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