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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Kdb vs. Kingbase vs. PieCloudDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchHigh performance Time Series DBMSAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroickx.comwww.kingbase.com.cnwww.openpie.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccode.kx.com
DeveloperSpotifyKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.OpenPie
Initial release20142000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20031999
Current release3.6, May 2018V8.0, August 20212.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaqC and Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)Standard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
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HeroicKdbKingbasePieCloudDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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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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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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