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DBMS > KairosDB vs. Kdb vs. RDFox vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Kdb vs. RDFox vs. Transbase

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2High performance Time Series DBMSHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbkx.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iocode.kx.comdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOxford Semantic TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320171987
Current release1.2.2, November 20183.6, May 20186.0, Septermber 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaqC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)noyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationreplication via a shared file systemSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlrights management via user accountsRoles, resources, and access typesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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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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