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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. LevelDB vs. Memcached vs. RDF4J vs. Tibero

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeRDF storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitekx.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.memcached.orgrdf4j.orgus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationcode.kx.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikirdf4j.org/­documentationtechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.TmaxSoft
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032011200320042003
Current release3.6, May 20181.23, February 20211.6.25, March 20246, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageqC++CJavaC and Assembler
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'nonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Proprietary protocolJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyesPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersyes infowith viewsnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesnoyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)
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KdbLevelDBMemcachedRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameTibero
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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