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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Kdb vs. OpenTSDB vs. searchxml

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.High performance Time Series DBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitewww.gbase.cnkx.comopentsdb.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationcode.kx.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plccurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20042000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320112015
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.6, May 20181.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonqJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'noyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (q)nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC#C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesrights management via user accountsnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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GBaseKdbOpenTSDBsearchxml
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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