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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitekx.comopentsdb.netprometheus.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationcode.kx.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plccurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRocket Software
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201120151985
Current release3.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageqJavaGoC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data onlyoptional
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.yesnono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'nonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersyes infowith viewsnonoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBaseShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnonoAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based
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KdbOpenTSDBPrometheusUniData,UniVerse
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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