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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. Newts vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS vs. TimesTen

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS based on CassandraRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Port of SQLite to JavaScriptIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitekx.comopennms.github.io/­newtsrdf4j.orgsql.js.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationcode.kx.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikirdf4j.org/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOpenNMS GroupSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032014200420121998
Current release3.6, May 201811 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageqJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'noyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)nonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP REST
Java API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
JavaJava
PHP
Python
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesnoPL/SQL
Triggersyes infowith viewsnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on Cassandranonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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KdbNewtsRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSQL.JSTimesTen
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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