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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. Manticore Search vs. MarkLogic vs. NSDb

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Search engineDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitekx.commanticoresearch.comwww.progress.com/­marklogicnsdb.io
Technical documentationcode.kx.commanual.manticoresearch.comwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcManticore SoftwareMarkLogic Corp.
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201720012017
Current release3.6, May 20186.0, February 202311.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageqC++C++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesFixed schemaschema-free infoSchema can be enforced
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.yesCan index from XMLyesno
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like query languageyes infoSQL92SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
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
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infowith viewsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes
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 jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, with Range Indexes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levels
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KdbManticore SearchMarkLogicNSDb
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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