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DBMS > Kdb vs. ObjectBox vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. ObjectBox vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Yaacomo

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Object oriented DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial 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
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitekx.comobjectbox.iorethinkdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlyaacomo.com
Technical documentationcode.kx.comdocs.objectbox.iorethinkdb.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcObjectBox LimitedThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SAP infoformerly SybaseQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032017200919922009
Current release3.6, May 20182.4.1, August 202017, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageqC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)nonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyes infowith viewsnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneSharding inforange basednonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsyesyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
KdbObjectBoxRethinkDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereYaacomo
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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