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DBMS > Kdb vs. LMDB vs. MarkLogic vs. MaxDB vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. LMDB vs. MarkLogic vs. MaxDB vs. MonetDB

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitekx.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.progress.com/­marklogicmaxdb.sap.comwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationcode.kx.comwww.lmdb.tech/­docwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSymasMarkLogic Corp.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997MonetDB BV
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032011200119842004
Current release3.6, May 20180.9.32, January 202411.0, December 20227.9.10.12, February 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageqCC++C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'noyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)noyes infoSQL92yesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
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
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyesyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyes infowith viewsnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingnoneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDACID
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.yesyesyes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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KdbLMDBMarkLogicMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DMonetDB
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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