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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Kdb vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

High performance Time Series DBMS

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.graphengine.io

kx.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

code.kx.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Microsoft

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Initial release

2010

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2014

Current release

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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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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