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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. OpenQM vs. SiteWhere vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

High performance Time Series DBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

kx.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SiteWhere

Ultipa

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1993

2010

2019

Current release

3.6, May 2018

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

predefined scheme

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)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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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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