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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. LeanXcale vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

High performance Time Series DBMS

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

kx.com

www.leanxcale.com

manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

LeanXcale

Manticore Software

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2015

2017

1984

Current release

3.6, May 2018

6.0, February 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

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

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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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

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Licensing and pricing models

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