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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Kdb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RRDtool

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsHigh performance Time Series DBMSA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comkx.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlcode.kx.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOracleTobias Oetiker
Initial release20002000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320111999
Current release15.5, September 20203.6, May 201824.1, May 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetqJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalNumeric data only
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayesnono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyes infowith viewsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingwith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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.yesyesyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and rolesno
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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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