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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Kdb vs. NSDb vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

High performance Time Series DBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

kx.com

nsdb.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

code.kx.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2002

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2017

1993

Current release

4.0

3.6, May 2018

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Java
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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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

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Licensing and pricing models

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