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DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Kdb vs. Kingbase

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Kdb vs. Kingbase

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridHigh performance Time Series DBMSAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.57
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score7.72
Rank#45  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#259  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comkx.comwww.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docscode.kx.com
DeveloperHazelcastKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release20082000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20031999
Current release5.3.6, November 20233.6, May 2018V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaqC and Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (q)Standard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesuser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyes infoEventsyes infowith viewsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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HazelcastKdbKingbase
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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