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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Kdb vs. SiriDB vs. Tkrzw vs. Transbase

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopHigh performance Time Series DBMSOpen Source Time Series DBMSA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgkx.comsiridb.comdbmx.net/­tkrzwwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecode.kx.comdocs.siridb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcCesbitMikio HirabayashiTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201720201987
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.6, May 20180.9.3, August 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaqCC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoNumeric datanoyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (q)nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 infousing specific database classesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesrights management via user accountssimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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HiveKdbSiriDBTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetTransbase
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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