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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Kdb vs. STSdb

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

High performance Time Series DBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.jaguardb.com

kx.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

code.kx.com

Developer

FatCloud

DataJaguar, Inc.

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2015

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2011

Current release

3.3 July 2023

3.6, May 2018

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license 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++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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'

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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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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