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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Kdb vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

High performance Time Series DBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

kx.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

Developer

IBM

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2020

Current release

3.6, May 2018

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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Competitive advantages

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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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