DBMS > Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

High performance Time Series DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Widely used in-process key-value store

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

kx.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Microsoft

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Oracle

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2014

1994

2007

2009

Current release

3.6, May 2018

18.1.40, May 2020

14.1, August 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

with views

JavaScript

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Live Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes, using Riak Security

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