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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Kdb vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

High performance Time Series DBMS

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

geospock.com

kx.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

GeoSpock

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Transwarp

Initial release

2004

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0, September 2019

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per table

rights management via user accounts

yes

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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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