DBMS > KairosDB vs. Kdb vs. MySQL vs. Netezza vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Kdb vs. MySQL vs. Netezza vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

High performance Time Series DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

kx.com

www.mysql.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

code.kx.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

IBM

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2013

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1995

2000

2001

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

3.6, May 2018

8.4.0, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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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

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Market metrics

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