DBMS > Kdb vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB vs. TempoIQ vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB vs. TempoIQ vs. Tibero

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

High performance Time Series DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

kx.com

google.github.io/lovefield

rocksdb.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Google

Facebook, Inc.

TempoIQ

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2014

2013

2012

2003

Current release

3.6, May 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

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++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

with views

Using read-only observers

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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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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