DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Kdb vs. Kinetica vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Kdb vs. Kinetica vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

High performance Time Series DBMS

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

kx.com

www.kinetica.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

code.kx.com

docs.kinetica.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Google

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Kinetica

Transaction Software GmbH

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2010

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2012

1987

2011

Current release

3.6, May 2018

7.1, August 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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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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