DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Kdb vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Kdb vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

High performance Time Series DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

kx.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

code.kx.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Teradata

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2013

1994

1984

Current release

15.5, September 2020

3.6, May 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

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
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Source-replica replication

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Role-based access control

rights management via user accounts

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

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Licensing and pricing models

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