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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. STSdb

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsMicrosoft 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.)A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
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
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitekx.commaxdb.sap.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationcode.kx.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.html
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997MicrosoftOracleSTS Soft SC
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20031984199220112011
Current release3.6, May 20187.9.10.12, February 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201924.1, May 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageqC++C++JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)yesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersyes infowith viewsyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
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.yesnoyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users and rolesno
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KdbMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DMicrosoft AccessOracle NoSQLSTSdb
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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