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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenEdge vs. TigerGraph

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Application development environment with integrated database management systemA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitekx.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.progress.com/­openedgewww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationcode.kx.comwww.lmdb.tech/­docdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSymasMicrosoftProgress Software Corporation
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032011199219842017
Current release3.6, May 20180.9.32, January 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageqCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
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'noyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)noyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
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++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyes
Triggersyes infowith viewsnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users and groupsRole-based access control
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KdbLMDBMicrosoft AccessOpenEdgeTigerGraph
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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