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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Kdb vs. searchxml vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TerarkDB

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NameInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendHigh performance Time Series DBMSDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.85
Rank#205  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websiteignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbkx.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdbgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationcode.kx.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042bytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcinformationpartners gmbhTencentByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20052000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201520132016
Current release3.6, May 20181.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCqC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windowshosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (q)noyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoon the application serveryesno
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnomultiple readers, single writerACIDno
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.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesrights management via user accountsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno
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InfobrightKdbsearchxmlTDSQL for MySQLTerarkDB
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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