DBMS > Kdb vs. LMDB vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. LMDB vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

High performance Time Series DBMS

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	7.73
Rank	#45	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#120	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

kx.com

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

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

maxdb.sap.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

www.lmdb.tech/doc

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Symas

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2011

2014

1984

2014

Current release

3.6, May 2018

0.9.32, January 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

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

.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

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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