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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. Kinetica vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

High performance Time Series DBMS

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#125	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

kx.com

www.kinetica.com

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

docs.kinetica.com

www.lmdb.tech/doc

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Kinetica

Symas

Microsoft

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2012

2011

2014

Current release

3.6, May 2018

7.1, August 2021

0.9.32, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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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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