DBMS > Kdb vs. Memgraph vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. Memgraph vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

High performance Time Series DBMS

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

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

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

kx.com

memgraph.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Social network pages

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Memgraph Ltd

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, Sybase

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2017

2013

1987

2018

Current release

3.6, May 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

16.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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)

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

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

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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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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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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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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