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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IBM Db2 vs. Infobright vs. jBASE vs. Kdb

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score127.49
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score1.00
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score1.43
Rank#160  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score7.70
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasekx.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9code.kx.com
DeveloperChris DavisIBMIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release20061983 infohost version200519912000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release12.1, October 20165.73.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version is availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++Cq
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesoptionalyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Source-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelrights management via user accounts
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GraphiteIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2InfobrightjBASEKdb
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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